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Wildfires in Istres

Istres, France, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 101 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 18° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 56 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 56 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 61 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 63 % · 52 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 66 % · 16 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

101
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
2
fires
114
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Istres

  1. 0 ha Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 319 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 100 ha Istres fire, August 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 1 day

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).