Overview
- Santé publique France reported a provisional rise of 2,025 excess deaths for the week of June 22–28, with Île-de-France and Pays de la Loire hardest hit and deaths at home nearly doubling compared with the prior week.
- Those figures are based on electronic death certificates that cover only about 60% of deaths nationally and roughly 25% of home deaths, so public health officials say the true toll will be revised upward as civil records are consolidated.
- Exceptionally early and violent wildfires broke out in the south, including a blaze that burned about 900 hectares between the Aude and the Hérault and a camping-port fire at Canet-en-Roussillon that forced roughly 3,000 people to evacuate and destroyed bungalows, boats and industrial buildings.
- The government convened an interministerial crisis cell in Marseille and kept the Orsan 3 hospital plan active while hundreds to thousands of firefighters and aerial assets such as Canadairs carried out hundreds of water drops to contain multiple fires.
- Météo France said the June wave has formally ended by its national thermal index, but forecasters predict a new rise in temperatures from the coming weekend with more than 35°C possible in the southwest, keeping health and fire risks elevated and straining local services.