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Wildfires in Etchebar

Etchebar, France, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2019: 151 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 4 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 11° · 54 % · 69 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 13° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 63 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 51 % · 58 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 90 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 43 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 41 % · 21 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

151
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
1
fires
8
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Etchebar

  1. 151 ha Larrau fire, 24 February 2026 19% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 53 ha Larrau fire, 17 February 2025 6.6% of the municipality · 460 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 9 ha Larrau fire, 28 March 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 190 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 114 ha Etchebar fire, February 2020 where it started 14% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 25 ha Larrau fire, 21 February 2019 3.1% of the municipality · 523 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Republic of France, Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Posts and Press Distribution (ARCEP) (Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).