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Wildfires in Ariège

Ariège, France: 5 fires with a page have entered 26 of its 327 communes since 2016, burning 825 hectares inside the region. The largest was Caychax in December 2016, with 547 hectares inside the region. 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 9 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
825ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.2%
4,912 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
26
of 327
Largest fire
547ha
Caychax · December 2016
Inhabitants
143,470
5.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 12° · 54 % · 57 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 57 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 71 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 75 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 49 % · 24 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Gestiès 38 inhabitants 529 ha · 19 %
  2. Saurat 700 inhabitants 352 ha · 7.9 %
  3. Ustou 281 inhabitants 322 ha · 3.3 %
  4. Bordes-Uchentein 219 inhabitants 230 ha · 4.3 %
  5. Appy 28 inhabitants 204 ha · 34 %
  6. Caychax 171 ha · 30 %
  7. Perles-et-Castelet 218 inhabitants 126 ha · 6.9 %
  8. Tignac 20 inhabitants 116 ha · 31 %
  9. Alos 116 inhabitants 102 ha · 4.3 %
  10. Senconac 20 inhabitants 96 ha · 21 %
  11. Illier-et-Laramade 39 inhabitants 83 ha · 16 %
  12. Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens 66 inhabitants 76 ha · 4.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land80 %
  • Broadleaved forest18 %
  • Agricultural areas1.0 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20263565 Saurat 273 ha
20241142 Gestiès 142 ha
20233306 Alos 103 ha
20222288 Tignac 157 ha
20194716 Gestiès 387 ha
20161547 Caychax 547 ha

All fires in Ariège · 14

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).