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🇫🇷 France: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 190 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 06:21.

Busiest day: 28 October, with 32 ignitions detected. +17% compared with September 2026.

190
archived events
0
still active
2
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
131
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 190 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: 131 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

022026-10-02: 5032026-10-03: 5052026-10-05: 1062026-10-06: 3082026-10-08: 1092026-10-09: 4102026-10-10: 9112026-10-11: 5132026-10-13: 1142026-10-14: 10152026-10-15: 7162026-10-16: 4172026-10-17: 1182026-10-18: 13192026-10-19: 7202026-10-20: 8212026-10-21: 1222026-10-22: 3232026-10-23: 11252026-10-25: 1262026-10-26: 9272026-10-27: 2282026-10-28: 32292026-10-29: 10302026-10-30: 21312026-10-31: 16

Most affected French departments

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Corte15 Oct, 13:401131
Mercus-Garrabet15 Oct, 13:4026123
Mercus-Garrabet15 Oct, 13:4019123
Grosseto-Prugna29 Oct, 15:183140
Vic-Fezensac5 Oct, 14:28335
Corte25 Oct, 22:08332
Florac31 Oct, 09:18730
Corte13 Oct, 08:081327
Corte27 Oct, 09:48423
Beaumont-de-Lomagne15 Oct, 12:18319

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, France, October 2026: 190 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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