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Incendie de Saumos

Saumos–Le Porge–Lège-Cap-Ferret

Gironde44.8675, -1.0660
actif et non fixéObserved 26 Jul 2026, 02:00 UTC
Physical identityGironde incident complex; its two EFFIS polygons remain separate measurements and are not joined to any Spanish perimeter.
Administrative identityGironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Operational groupingNo shared operational group recorded
Forecast regionFR-SWRegional context only—not an incident growth simulation

Current operational situation

Status & public orders

Official reported area42,000 haPréfecture de la Gironde / SDIS 33
EFFIS mapped area34,640 haSatellite-mapped burnt area · separate measurement
Evacuated220,000 evacuated in the Gironde source scopeGironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
ConfinedNo confinement total published in the frozen source packageGironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Responsible authorities

responsible operational authorityPréfecture de la Gironde / SDIS 33

Evacuation, confinement and closure records

Road closureeffective-at-frozen-update
A63 closure/restriction reported in the Gironde operational loop.

Préfecture de la Gironde · effective Not published

No authority polygon published; map uses a point reference only.

Measurement ledger

Perimeters kept separate

An operational area estimate and an EFFIS satellite-mapped burnt-area perimeter may cover different objects at different times. Auburn neither merges them nor silently chooses one.

EFFIS record 562583 · principal perimeter29,872 ha

European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), JRC
Updated 23 Jul 2026, 05:45 UTC

A remote-sensing perimeter/area estimate kept separate from national or incident-command reported hectares.
EFFIS record 570516 · newer eastern front4,768 ha

European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), JRC
Updated 26 Jul 2026, 06:43 UTC

A remote-sensing perimeter/area estimate kept separate from national or incident-command reported hectares.

Regional context · Auburn IC1

14-day scenario envelope

This is regional context—not an incident-specific prediction. It does not forecast an exact perimeter, arrival time or named-place impact.

0-72hMODERATE · P50 0.428

P10 0.400 · P90 0.453

E · SE · SW
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather pressure range; not a fire-arrival probability.
days-4-7HIGH · P50 0.491

P10 0.413 · P90 0.547

NE · E · SE
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather pressure range; not a fire-arrival probability.
days-8-14HIGH · P50 0.461

P10 0.389 · P90 0.530

E · SE
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather scenario envelope; direction is a broad monitoring corridor, never a predicted fireline.
0.35E
0.30SE
0.63SW
0.76NE
0.43E
0.40SE
0.44SE
0.45E
0.42E
0.43E
0.47SE
0.45SE
0.46SE
0.46SE

Chronology

Incident timeline

  1. officialGironde reported-area estimate reaches 42,000 hectares; fire remains active and not fixed.

    Gironde reported-area estimate reaches 42,000 hectares; fire remains active and not fixed.

    gironde-prefecture-situation, associated-press-july26