Wildfires in Hérault
Hérault, France: 15 fires with a page have entered 35 of its 342 communes since 2016, burning 3,822 hectares inside the region. The largest was Aumelas in July 2022, with 964 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
- 3,822ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 6,231 km²
- fires
- 15
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 35
- of 342
- Largest fire
- 964ha
- Aumelas · July 2022
- Inhabitants
- 1,171,431
- 3.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 17° · 58 % · 46 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 16° · 57 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 18° · 69 % · 25 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 22° · 62 % · 17 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 20° · 74 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 20° · 51 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 45 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 20° · 47 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Aumelas 624 inhabitants 662 ha · 11 %
- Carlencas-et-Levas 110 inhabitants 284 ha · 26 %
- Villeveyrac 3,972 inhabitants 243 ha · 6.6 %
- Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve 947 inhabitants 243 ha · 29 %
- Gabian 886 inhabitants 206 ha · 13 %
- Frontignan 24,136 inhabitants 203 ha · 5.1 %
- Loupian 2,169 inhabitants 202 ha · 8.7 %
- Gignac 6,651 inhabitants 192 ha · 6.4 %
- Oupia 274 inhabitants 184 ha · 20 %
- Saint-Pargoire 2,501 inhabitants 157 ha · 6.6 %
- Mireval 3,301 inhabitants 151 ha · 13 %
- Creissan 1,436 inhabitants 149 ha · 17 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub47 %
- Agricultural areas17 %
- Other natural land14 %
- Coniferous forest9.0 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland5.1 %
- Mixed forest4.9 %
- Broadleaved forest3.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Villeveyrac243 ha
- 2×Aumelas662 ha
- 2×Saint-Pargoire157 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 964 haAumelasJuly 2022 · 1 day
- 354 haCarlencas-et-LevasJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 303 haGigeanAugust 2024 · 1 day
- 267 haMirevalJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 248 haSaint-PargoireAugust 2021 · 1 day
- 245 haBeaufortJuly 2026 · 1 day of 806 ha in total
- 243 haGabianAugust 2016 · 1 day
- 209 haSaint-Pons-de-MauchiensAugust 2017 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 893 | Carlencas-et-Levas 354 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 401 | Mireval 267 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 303 | Gigean 303 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 178 | Aumelas 178 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 964 | Aumelas 964 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 248 | Saint-Pargoire 248 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 384 | Loupian 202 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 209 | Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens 209 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 243 | Gabian 243 ha |
All fires in Hérault · 15
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 155 haSaint-Félix-de-l'HérasAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 140 haPoussanJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 354 haCarlencas-et-LevasJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 245 haBeaufortJuly 2026 · 1 day of 806 ha in total
- 132 haCournonsecJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 2 haRoguesJuly 2025 · 2 days of 417 ha in total
- 267 haMirevalJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 303 haGigeanAugust 2024 · 1 day
- 178 haAumelasAugust 2023 · 1 day
- 964 haAumelasJuly 2022 · 1 day
- 248 haSaint-PargoireAugust 2021 · 1 day
- 202 haLoupianSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 181 haCreissanAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 209 haSaint-Pons-de-MauchiensAugust 2017 · 1 day
- 243 haGabianAugust 2016 · 1 day
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).