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Wildfires in Gard

Gard, France: 7 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 351 communes since 2016, burning 2,590 hectares inside the region. The largest was Générac in July 2019, with 607 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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

hectares burned
2,590ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
5,880 km²
fires
7
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 351
Largest fire
607ha
Générac · July 2019
Inhabitants
753,491
3.4 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 18° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 57 % · 13 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. Générac 4,046 inhabitants 562 ha · 23 %
  2. Bordezac 387 inhabitants 426 ha · 45 %
  3. Montdardier 209 inhabitants 218 ha · 6.2 %
  4. Rogues 83 inhabitants 197 ha · 6.4 %
  5. Saint-Gilles 14,734 inhabitants 192 ha · 1.3 %
  6. Lédenon 1,685 inhabitants 174 ha · 9.0 %
  7. Aubais 2,925 inhabitants 162 ha · 13 %
  8. Bezouce 2,348 inhabitants 155 ha · 12 %
  9. Gallargues-le-Montueux 3,659 inhabitants 154 ha · 14 %
  10. Val-d'Aigoual 1,412 inhabitants 119 ha · 1.2 %
  11. Cabrières 1,817 inhabitants 115 ha · 7.7 %
  12. Bessèges 2,606 inhabitants 55 ha · 5.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas36 %
  • Coniferous forest23 %
  • Other natural land17 %
  • Broadleaved forest14 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland7.3 %
  • Mixed forest1.2 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub1.0 %

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
20261445 Lédenon 445 ha
20252539 Rogues 415 ha
20223999 Bordezac 534 ha
20191607 Générac 607 ha

All fires in Gard · 7

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).