🇫🇷 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.
"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."
Fire ignitions per day
Most affected French departments
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corte | 15 Oct, 13:40 | 1 | 131 |
| Mercus-Garrabet | 15 Oct, 13:40 | 26 | 123 |
| Mercus-Garrabet | 15 Oct, 13:40 | 19 | 123 |
| Grosseto-Prugna | 29 Oct, 15:18 | 31 | 40 |
| Vic-Fezensac | 5 Oct, 14:28 | 3 | 35 |
| Corte | 25 Oct, 22:08 | 3 | 32 |
| Florac | 31 Oct, 09:18 | 7 | 30 |
| Corte | 13 Oct, 08:08 | 13 | 27 |
| Corte | 27 Oct, 09:48 | 4 | 23 |
| Beaumont-de-Lomagne | 15 Oct, 12:18 | 3 | 19 |
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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