Wildfires in Var
Var, France: 17 fires with a page have entered 33 of its 152 communes since 2016, burning 21,076 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gonfaron in August 2021, with 6,628 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).
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
- 21,076ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.5%
- 6,038 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 33
- of 152
- Largest fire
- 6,628ha
- Gonfaron · August 2021
- Inhabitants
- 970,399
- 21.7 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 19° · 49 % · 48 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 16° · 43 % · 59 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 19° · 53 % · 55 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 20° · 51 % · 45 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 20° · 59 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 20° · 65 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 20° · 46 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 19° · 55 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Aiguines 274 inhabitants 2,737 ha · 24 %
- Le Cannet-des-Maures 5,140 inhabitants 2,272 ha · 31 %
- Correns 886 inhabitants 1,999 ha · 54 %
- La Garde-Freinet 1,862 inhabitants 1,780 ha · 23 %
- Bormes-les-Mimosas 8,545 inhabitants 1,512 ha · 16 %
- Pontevès 784 inhabitants 1,436 ha · 35 %
- Cotignac 2,197 inhabitants 1,317 ha · 30 %
- Montfort-sur-Argens 1,453 inhabitants 917 ha · 77 %
- Cogolin 12,301 inhabitants 733 ha · 26 %
- Seillons-Source-d'Argens 2,818 inhabitants 684 ha · 27 %
- Vidauban 12,608 inhabitants 641 ha · 8.4 %
- Artigues 282 inhabitants 535 ha · 17 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land33 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub27 %
- Mixed forest13 %
- Broadleaved forest8.5 %
- Agricultural areas8.2 %
- Coniferous forest7.7 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland2.5 %
- Artificial surfaces0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 4×Correns1,999 ha
- 3×Montfort-sur-Argens917 ha
- 3×Châteauvert305 ha
- 2×Aiguines2,737 ha
- 2×La Garde-Freinet1,780 ha
- 2×Vidauban641 ha
- 2×Barjols333 ha
- 2×La Londe-les-Maures248 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 6,628 haGonfaron Le Cannet-des-MauresAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 3,365 haPontevèsJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 2,570 haAiguinesJune 2022 · 3 days
- 2,072 haArtiguesJuly 2017 · 5 days
- 2,048 haCorrens31 July 2026 · 1 day
- 1,529 haBormes-les-MimosasJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 600 haCorrensJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 502 haLa Croix-ValmerJuly 2017 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Var · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,048 haCorrens31 July 2026 · 1 day
- 213 haBarjolsJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 264 haCorrens24 July 2026 · 1 day
- 3,365 haPontevèsJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 131 haLes ArcsJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 273 haVidaubanJune 2024 · 2 days
- 162 haTriganceOctober 2022 · 4 days
- 2,570 haAiguinesJune 2022 · 3 days
- 201 haSeillansMarch 2022 · 4 days
- 6,628 haGonfaron Le Cannet-des-MauresAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 167 haAiguinesSeptember 2020 · 1 day
- 123 haComps-sur-ArtubyOctober 2017 · 1 day
- 231 haHyèresSeptember 2017 · 2 days of 466 ha in total
- 1,529 haBormes-les-MimosasJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 502 haLa Croix-ValmerJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 2,072 haArtiguesJuly 2017 · 5 days
- 600 haCorrensJuly 2016 · 2 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).