Wildfires occurred near Lege-Cap-Ferret on July 30, 2026, in the Les Landes forests that were established in the 19th century and previously burned in 1949 and 2022. The 10,000-square-kilometer area has a documented history of large fires, including one that killed 82 people in 1949. President Emmanuel Macron called for replanting a different kind of forest.