🇫🇷 France: wildfires in September 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

France, September 2026: 163 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:50.

Busiest day: 5 September, with 17 ignitions detected. +34% compared with August 2026.

"In September 2026, kanari archived 163 detection events in France, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 376 MW."