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Wildfire near Chouppes (Jul 22)

Ended · About 100 hectares (247 acres), estimated by satellite · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers92 days
100Hectares · estimated247Acres · estimated92Days it lasted

Started on Jul 22, 2026.

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Wildfire near Chouppes (Jul 22) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Chouppes (Jul 22) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

Satellites detected a low heat intensity from the wildfire that recently burned near Chouppes, France, where five heat signatures were registered over a forty-eight hour period.

The incident, which started on July 22, 2026, ultimately reached a final size of 100 hectares (247 acres) before it ended.

In context

This wildfire burned in France for 80 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.

The bigger picture in France

Across France, roughly 98,459 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 567% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.

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