Are there any wildfires in Normandie right now?

The “Right now” block at the top of this page counts the satellite detections that fell inside Normandie over the last 24 hours, and gives the time of the most recent one. It refreshes about every ten minutes, the rate at which NASA republishes its files. Zero detections means nothing was seen, not that nothing is burning.

How do we know there is a fire in a given place?

We do not know it, we infer it. Polar-orbiting satellites measure infrared radiation from the ground and flag every abnormally hot pixel. A VIIRS pixel is about 375 metres across, a MODIS pixel a kilometre. A detection therefore says “something very hot in this square, at this minute” — not “a forest fire started here”.

When is the fire season in Normandie?

Across the five archive years, the busiest month in Normandie is July. The “The season” curve below gives the full distribution. Note that a winter or spring peak usually means agricultural or pastoral burning rather than forest fire.

What was the worst year in Normandie?

2022, with more satellite detections than any other year in the archive. This ranks by how many hot pixels were seen, not by burned area or damage: a cloudy year can be understated, and one large well-observed fire weighs heavily.

Can the water-bombing aircraft and helicopters be seen?

Yes, when they transmit ADS-B and a receiver hears them. The map draws their tracks, and the catalog lists verified aircraft country by country. A missing track proves nothing: radio coverage, a transponder switched off, an aircraft not in the catalog — three ordinary reasons not to see an aircraft that is flying.

Can this map replace an official alert?

No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.

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Normandie, France

Fires in Normandie

Is there a fire in Normandie today? Satellite detections from the last 24 hours, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 732 detections, season, worst year and the largest recorded fires.

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Fires burning now in Normandie

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Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS

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Five years of archive

2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31

The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.

Satellite detections: 732
Distinct fires: 444
Busiest month: July
Worst year: 2022
Strongest signal: 197 MW
Seen at night: 51.5%
Detections per 1,000 km²: 24.4

Detections per year

Detections per year
Year	Detections
2020	139
2021	96
2022	170
2023	104
2024	55
2025	96
2026	72

The season

Share of detections by month, over the five years together.

The season
Month	Detections
Jan	28
Feb	8
Mar	46
Apr	76
May	45
Jun	98
Jul	207
Aug	92
Sep	70
Oct	41
Nov	11
Dec	10

The largest recorded fires

The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.

Aug 12, 2022 to Aug 13, 2022
near Thierville, 1.4 km away
First seen at 49.273, 0.704
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14 detections · 2.4 km across · 176 MW
Sep 30, 2023 to Oct 2, 2023
near Bertreville-Saint-Ouen, 1.5 km away
First seen at 49.806, 1.024
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12 detections · 1.8 km across · 45 MW
Jul 10, 2025 to Jul 15, 2025
near Garcelles-Secqueville, 1.9 km away
First seen at 49.100, -0.255
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12 detections · 0.6 km across · 1 MW
Jul 17, 2022 to Jul 18, 2022
near La Hague, 2.7 km away
First seen at 49.652, -1.851
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10 detections · 4.7 km across · 169 MW
Jan 10, 2020 to Jan 20, 2020
near Rogerville, 0.8 km away
First seen at 49.485, 0.248
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9 detections · 0.8 km across · 2 MW

A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.

Provinces

Area	Detections	Fires	Season
Seine-Maritime	268	156	June
Eure	186	112	July
Calvados	128	75	July
Orne	82	54	July
Manche	68	48	July

Elsewhere in France

Area	Detections	Fires	Season
Nouvelle-Aquitaine	16,881	2,860	July
Occitanie	7,369	3,253	February
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	4,604	1,535	July
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	2,841	1,405	July
Corsica	1,853	500	February
Grand Est	1,671	1,025	July
Hauts-de-France	1,621	641	July
Centre — Val de Loire	1,252	745	July

The questions people ask

Are there any wildfires in Normandie right now?: The “Right now” block at the top of this page counts the satellite detections that fell inside Normandie over the last 24 hours, and gives the time of the most recent one. It refreshes about every ten minutes, the rate at which NASA republishes its files. Zero detections means nothing was seen, not that nothing is burning.
How do we know there is a fire in a given place?: We do not know it, we infer it. Polar-orbiting satellites measure infrared radiation from the ground and flag every abnormally hot pixel. A VIIRS pixel is about 375 metres across, a MODIS pixel a kilometre. A detection therefore says “something very hot in this square, at this minute” — not “a forest fire started here”.
When is the fire season in Normandie?: Across the five archive years, the busiest month in Normandie is July. The “The season” curve below gives the full distribution. Note that a winter or spring peak usually means agricultural or pastoral burning rather than forest fire.
What was the worst year in Normandie?: 2022, with more satellite detections than any other year in the archive. This ranks by how many hot pixels were seen, not by burned area or damage: a cloudy year can be understated, and one large well-observed fire weighs heavily.
Can the water-bombing aircraft and helicopters be seen?: Yes, when they transmit ADS-B and a receiver hears them. The map draws their tracks, and the catalog lists verified aircraft country by country. A missing track proves nothing: radio coverage, a transponder switched off, an aircraft not in the catalog — three ordinary reasons not to see an aircraft that is flying.
Can this map replace an official alert?: No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.

How to read this page

A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.

The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.

Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 38,727 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 250 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 4,992 detections were removed.

Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.

The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.