The France campervan, caravan & motorhome guide that is also a wildfire safety handbook — evacuation playbook, smoke rules, safe overnight stops, routes and aires. Backed by this live map, updated daily.Launching this week
Satellite & forecast data refreshed: 29 July 2026. Editorial fire & disruption reporting last reviewed: 29 July 2026. Conditions change hourly during fires — national authorities are always right. In danger anywhere in the EU, call 112.
France · official sources

The live-check toolkit

Every page on this site is a snapshot; these are the sources that move in real time. Ten minutes each morning over coffee covers all of them. They are the authority — in danger, call 112.

CheckSourceWhen to look
Weather alertsvigilance.meteofrance.fr — official orange/red warnings by départementEvery morning; before committing to an inland leg
Fire-risk & massif closuresEach Med département's daily massif map (search "carte massifs" + the département; Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Aude, Hérault, Gard and Pyrénées-Orientales all publish one)Daily in the south, published each evening for the next day
Motorway statusBison Futé for planned traffic; Vinci Autoroutes radio (107.7 FM) for live closuresBefore any motorway leg; 107.7 constantly while driving
Smoke & air qualityIQAir live map; regional ATMO networks (ATMO Sud, ATMO Occitanie)Any day you can see haze or a fire is within 100 km
RailSNCF Connect app — disruptions appear on the journey screenMorning of travel on heat-peak days
Emergency alertsFR-Alert pushes evacuation orders to any phone on French networks automatically — no app needed. Fire brigade: 18 or 112Automatic; keep the phone off silent overnight in fire country

The briefings

Plain-English email briefings through the season. Double opt-in, unsubscribe anytime, addresses used for nothing else. Red-alert safety information is never behind the paywall — the paid tier sells you the daily habit and the convenience, not the warnings.

Friday briefing — freeThe week's fires, closures and heat in one email, every Friday. Sign up in the box at the foot of any page — takes ten seconds.
Daily briefing — £12 for the seasonEvery morning by 08:00: overnight fire developments, today's vigilance and massif closures, road status, smoke outlook. The full Van & Camping Guide PDF included, with every update free all season. (Payments open this week — free sign-ups get first access.)

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The rest of the France section

Where are the fires and heat right now? →The live map: fire zones including Gironde, vigilance areas, day-by-day temperatures What will the weather be like? →How far ahead forecasts can honestly see — week-by-week to early September Is my travel window risky? →The next four weeks, week by week, confidence-rated What actually gets disrupted? →Motorways, local roads, rail, campsites, massif closures — and how smoke behaves The £7 guide →The full van & camping handbook with the fire-season playbook

Fire & heat updates by email — don't check, be told

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