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France extinguishes largest wildfire since 1949

Rank
Ran
17h
Updated
6d ago
Closed
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
5

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France 24 France · English 28 Sept, 17:00 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Français (3) · Lietuvių (1) · Melayu (1) · Nederlands (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Le Soir, 28 Sept, 15:58 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Libération.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 28 Sept, 15:58 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Utusan Malaysia.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%

First movers

  1. Le Soir 28 Sept, 15:58 UTC
  2. Libération +17m
  3. Le Figaro +30m
  4. France 24 +1h 2m
  5. NU.nl +3h 12m

Last to join

  1. Lrytas 29 Sept, 09:17 UTC
  2. Utusan Malaysia 29 Sept, 04:02 UTC
  3. NU.nl 28 Sept, 19:10 UTC
  4. France 24 28 Sept, 17:00 UTC
  5. Le Figaro 28 Sept, 16:27 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 4: Belgium, France, Lithuania, Netherlands. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, French, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article Le Soir, 28 Sept 2026, 15:58 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 09:17 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, France. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
28 Sept 2026 344 3.13 5 3 5 3 3.3

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Started 28 Sept, 16:10 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 09:17 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 29 Sept, 04:02 UTC
    Perancis padam kebakaran hutan terbesar sejak 1949

Europe 6 outlets

  • Lrytas Lithuania 29 Sept, 09:17 UTC
    Prancūzijoje užgesintas didžiausias nuo 1949 m. miško gaisras
  • NU.nl Netherlands 28 Sept, 19:10 UTC
    Grote natuurbrand die in juli bij Bordeaux woedde is pas nu volledig gedoofd
  • France 24 France 28 Sept, 17:00 UTC
    France puts out largest wildfire since 1949
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • France puts out massive fire that torched 42,000 hectares and smouldered for 69 days 28 Sept, 17:00 UTC
  • Le Figaro France 28 Sept, 16:27 UTC
    Après deux mois d’enfer, le mégafeu de Saumos est enfin éteint
  • Libération France 28 Sept, 16:15 UTC
    Le mégafeu en Gironde est enfin déclaré «éteint», deux mois après avoir démarré à Saumos
  • Le Soir Belgium 28 Sept, 15:58 UTC
    Le mégafeu de Saumos, en Gironde, déclaré « éteint » deux mois après
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