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Wildfires in Sigean

Sigean, France, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 415 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Low 22° · 55 % · 56 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 21° · 69 % · 56 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 79 % · 41 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 19° · 51 % · 52 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 60 % · 48 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 19° · 55 % · 63 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 20° · 39 % · 50 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

415
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
2
fires
40
km²

How many times has Sigean burned?

Sigean has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Sigean fire, July 2025, with 256 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 415 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 354 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
415
cumulative ha
354
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 Sigean

  1. 256 ha Sigean fire, July 2025 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 256 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 158 ha Sigean fire, September 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 312 ha in total · 2 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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