Overview

• The Office national des forêts reports that nine out of every ten forest fires in France are human-caused and has banned barbecues and smoking in forests during drought conditions.
• Late June and early July fires in Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur have already exceeded the total burned area for those regions in all of 2024.
• ONF teams conduct regular vegetation moisture surveys across nearly a hundred sites, combining results with Météo-France data to calculate fire danger levels and guide resource deployment.
• Canada’s 2025 fire season has seen over 500 active blazes and nearly 6 million hectares scorched, making it one of the worst on record.
• A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that global forest fire disturbances have risen since 2000, threatening even remote intact forests under mounting climate and land-use pressures.