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Wildfires in Saumos

Saumos, France: 2 fires since 2022 burned 6,030 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 54 % · 72 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 67 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 78 % · 61 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 56 % · 18 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

6,030
hectares burned
1.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
57
km²

How many times has Saumos burned?

Saumos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Saumos fire, July 2026, with 4,816 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,030 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,630 hectares, 98 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  7. 1× 22
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  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,030
cumulative ha
5,630
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in France →

Fires that entered Saumos

  1. 4,816 ha Saumos fire, July 2026 where it started 84% of the municipality · 37,363 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,215 ha Sainte-Hélène fire, September 2022 21% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 7 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).

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