Fire near 43.77°N, 1.21°W

What the satellites measured

This fire is not in the last thirty days of the fire list, but detections remain around this point: the curve below is rebuilt from the raw pixels, which are kept for a hundred days.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Timeline

Contained33 hastarted on 28 August at 16:06 · contained on 28 August at 21:50

1. Area revised to 33 ha28 August at 21:50

   DIRECT. Incendie dans les Landes : le feu est désormais “fixé” à Magescq avec une surface parcourue de 33 hectares, un dispositif… — Sud Ouest

2. Reported contained28 August at 21:50

   DIRECT. Incendie dans les Landes : le feu est désormais “fixé” à Magescq avec une surface parcourue de 33 hectares, un dispositif… — Sud Ouest

3. First report28 August at 16:06

   Feu de forêt en cours entre Magescq et Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, situation "préoccupante", des moyens aériens engagés — ici.fr

A "contained" fire is no longer spreading but is not out: crews remain on site and it can flare up again. Statuses and areas come from press reports and official sources, matched automatically; they are not an official record — only the prefecture and the fire service are authoritative. An entry with no news for ten days is closed automatically, and each entry's history keeps track of who announced what, and when.

The location

No satellite detected this fire: it is known only through press and official sources. There is therefore nothing to replay — the map shows the place, and the timeline above tells what was announced. This is the most common case in France: a fire of a few hectares brought under control in the afternoon slips between two overpasses without leaving a single hot pixel.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Follow live

The map shows active fires in 3D, with smoke plumes, forecast wind, drop zones and the live position of the Canadair, Dash 8 and Air Tractor aircraft of the French Sécurité civile.