Overview

• EFFIS data place the EU’s burned area at around one million hectares in 2025, the largest since record-keeping began.
• Spain and Portugal account for more than 680,000 hectares this summer, far above their 20-year averages.
• World Weather Attribution finds the likelihood of fires of this scale is about ten times higher in parts of the eastern Mediterranean due to observed warming.
• Germany has recorded roughly 5,400 hectares burned, about ten times its recent average and the most since 1975.
• Media reports cite about 20 deaths and around 80,000 evacuations across affected regions as national services contend with exceptional fire weather driven by heat, drought and winds.