Wildfires in Gironde
Gironde, France: 15 fires with a page have entered 33 of its 535 communes since 2016, burning 68,706 hectares inside the region. The largest was Saumos in July 2026, with 37,369 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 68,706ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.6%
- 10,366 km²
- fires
- 15
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 33
- of 535
- Largest fire
- 37,369ha
- Saumos · July 2026
- Inhabitants
- 1,403,800
- 48.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very low 15° · 80 % · 16 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 16° · 67 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 12° · 62 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 12° · 53 % · 36 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 12° · 61 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 15° · 66 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 15° · 74 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 13° · 84 % · 14 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Le Porge 3,465 inhabitants 8,158 ha · 55 %
- Saumos 550 inhabitants 6,030 ha · 1.0×
- Lanton 7,337 inhabitants 5,968 ha · 43 %
- La Teste-de-Buch 27,566 inhabitants 5,804 ha · 33 %
- Le Temple 652 inhabitants 4,445 ha · 62 %
- Belin-Béliet 6,275 inhabitants 4,035 ha · 26 %
- Arès 6,482 inhabitants 3,930 ha · 80 %
- Lège-Cap-Ferret 3,797 ha · 40 %
- Hostens 1,554 inhabitants 3,658 ha · 64 %
- Louchats 683 inhabitants 2,596 ha · 66 %
- Lacanau 5,739 inhabitants 2,505 ha · 11 %
- Sainte-Hélène 3,091 inhabitants 2,478 ha · 19 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest60 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland30 %
- Other natural land3.3 %
- Mixed forest3.1 %
- Agricultural areas2.0 %
- Artificial surfaces1.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Lucmau366 ha
- 2×Saumos6,030 ha
- 2×Arès3,930 ha
- 2×Hostens3,658 ha
- 2×Sainte-Hélène2,478 ha
- 2×Saint-Magne1,667 ha
- 2×Saint-Symphorien1,517 ha
- 2×Salaunes242 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 37,369 haSaumosJuly 2026 · 13 days
- 13,117 haLandirasJuly 2022 · 14 days
- 7,180 haBelin-BélietAugust 2022 · 5 days of 7,566 ha in total
- 5,804 haLa Teste-de-BuchJuly 2022 · 8 days
- 3,202 haSainte-HélèneSeptember 2022 · 7 days
- 863 haCissac-MédocApril 2017 · 3 days
- 297 haAvensanApril 2021 · 4 days
- 286 haSaint-SymphorienJuly 2020 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 37,388 | Saumos 37,369 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | Callen 0 ha |
| 2022 | 5 | 29,418 | Landiras 13,117 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 297 | Avensan 297 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 729 | Saint-Symphorien 286 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 873 | Cissac-Médoc 863 ha |
All fires in Gironde · 15
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 37,369 haSaumosJuly 2026 · 13 days
- 19 haCallenMarch 2026 · 1 day of 404 ha in total
- 0 haCallenSeptember 2025 · 1 day of 464 ha in total
- 115 haArèsSeptember 2022 · 3 days
- 3,202 haSainte-HélèneSeptember 2022 · 7 days
- 7,180 haBelin-BélietAugust 2022 · 5 days of 7,566 ha in total
- 5,804 haLa Teste-de-BuchJuly 2022 · 8 days
- 13,117 haLandirasJuly 2022 · 14 days
- 297 haAvensanApril 2021 · 4 days
- 150 haLucmau16 September 2020 · 2 days of 158 ha in total
- 187 haLucmau4 September 2020 · 4 days of 346 ha in total
- 286 haSaint-SymphorienJuly 2020 · 3 days
- 107 haSalaunesMarch 2020 · 1 day
- 10 haCallenJuly 2017 · 1 day of 640 ha in total
- 863 haCissac-MédocApril 2017 · 3 days
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).
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