Overview

• Spain’s AEMET and Portugal’s IPMA have issued extreme heat warnings with temperatures regularly exceeding 40 °C, creating hazardous conditions for communities and responders.
• Massive blazes remain active, including Portugal’s Trancoso fire that has consumed over 3,000 hectares and mobilized more than 1,200 firefighters and 400 vehicles.
• The Tres Cantos fire near Madrid has caused the season’s only confirmed fatality and forced large-scale evacuations in surrounding regions.
• Continental datasets show nearly 971,000 hectares burned so far in 2025, more than twice the average at this point and pushing the season toward a record peak.
• Experts link the unprecedented fires to human-driven climate change, warning of cascading impacts on water supplies, agriculture and cultural heritage.