Fires Dijon, Beaune, Montbard… What do the 20,800 hectares burned in the forest fires in Gironde, La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras represent in Côte-d’Or?

Twice the size of Paris, four to five times the area of ​​cities like Bordeaux or Lyon … The forest fires in Gironde, considered this Saturday as fixed for one and contained for the other, will have ravaged crazy areas . Data that had not been reached since 2003.

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It is also relatively difficult to imagine what 20,800 hectares may represent, i.e. what has been burned by fire for the moment in the sector of La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras. We have therefore prepared three maps, in Dijon, Beaune and Montbard.

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Longvic, Chenôve, Quetigny, Saint-Apollinaire, Talant, Dijon… In the Dijon sector, 20,800 hectares represents a large part of the Dijon metropolis (it is 240 km²). The area burned in Gironde is moreover five times the area of ​​Dijon, which is 40,41 km².

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Part of the coast would be no more. In the Beaune country, 20,800 hectares around Beaune goes from Merceuil in the south to Pernand-Vergelesses in the north, Meloisey in the west to the limits of Meursanges in the east.

The area burned is also six and a half times the area of ​​Beaune, which is 31,5 km².

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Montbard having a size larger than that of Dijon (46,37 km² against 40.41 km²), but with a much smaller population, the area burned during the fires represents “only” four and a half times that of Montbard.

If we draw a circle, a large area from Champ-d’Oiseau in the south to Petit Jailly in the north goes up in smoke, and from Quincy-le-Vicomte in the west to Fresnes in the east. .

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