On the occasion of Emmanuel Macron’s trip to the Gard to “prepare for summer” with the actors in charge of firefighting, Météo-France launched its first “Forest Weather” this Friday, June 2. Each day, this bulletin will be published, presenting the fire risks for each department. It will be available, at least until September, on the meteofrance.com site as well as on the Météo-France mobile application and on television, alongside the “Beach Weather” or the “Marine Weather”.
For its first, Météo-France places fourteen departments at moderate risk: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Cher, Loiret, Eure-et-Loir, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris, Val-de-Marne and Aube. The other metropolitan departments are all placed in green, and thus represent a low risk of forest fires.
For Saturday June 3, only Yvelines are placed at moderate risk.
This tool has a purely educational purpose, following the major fires in the summer of 2022. It is therefore a question of informing and raising awareness among the French “about the risk of fires so that they adopt the right reflexes to avoid departures of fires, especially in identified sensitive areas,” it is explained.