How Can We Explain the so Violent Spread of the Fire in the Aude?

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The enormous fire that was declared on Tuesday 5 August in the department of the south-west marked the spirits by the speed at which it unfolds, swallowing nearly 1,000 hectares of vegetation per hour. The fault of a combination of factors.

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The megafire that has already travelled nearly 17,000 hectares since Tuesday is exceptional because of its scale and speed of spread. Several factors are involved.

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Thursday, August 7, 2025 - 21:01 "True trees under heat, melted cans": after the passage of fire, a near lunar landscape in the Aude By RTL info with Marwa Sebbahi The terrible fire having ravaged more than 17,000 hectares in the Aude is now fixed. Behind it, the fire has left a lot of traces and land, once covered with vegetation, now rather resembles a quasi-lunar landscape. Reading Zen In France, the fire of an exceptional magnitude that has …

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The department of Aude is currently hit by the largest French fire since 1973. Franck Saillan, secretary general of the winegrowers' union of Aude, points out to the JDD the importance of the vines in order to limit their ravages.

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The fire that broke out on Tuesday 5 August in the Aude already marks the story by its intensity. Referred to Alsace, the area destroyed by the fire is impressive. Discover its area if it happened near you...

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By travelling 16,000 hectares in less than 24 hours, the forest fire in the Aude is the worst fire in the last fifty years on the Mediterranean edge, but the data are incomplete beyond. Here are three questions to understand the methods to determine the magnitude of a fire.