"La Météo des Forêts" is a tool developed by Météo-France that provides daily updates on fire risk based on weather conditions and vegetation dryness. It aims to raise public awareness and promote good habits to prevent fires, especially during the summer months.

The climate report for June 2025 and summer forecasts predict exceptionally hot and dry conditions, significantly increasing the risks for French forests already weakened by climate change.

According to data from Météo France, 2020 is the hottest year la plus chaude registered since 1900. The average temperature of the year reached 14°C, while the normal average for metropolitan France is about 12,6°C (climatic normals over the period 1981-2010)

Trees "drink" water from the ground, and evacuate a large part of this water by evaporation and the transpiration of their foliage.

We have previously seen the influence of trees on climatic factors at forest scale.

On this very particular spring day, all confined while nature continue to follow its work depending on climatic hazards, it seems important to us to remind how important the role of nature and forest is est fundamental.

The solutions of nature face to climate change may appear limited : adaptations and migrations will depend on genetic characteristics of trees and on the time we have.

As we have seen, climatic hazards and especially summer droughts are more and more recurrent, and they have been going on since the 1980s ...

Lower water reserves in soils Climate change means more frequent high temperatures.