Overview

• Authorities report about 40 active wildfires, with 23 flagged as especially concerning across Ourense, León, Zamora and Cáceres.
• Satellite monitoring via EFFIS suggests August’s burned area could reach roughly 300,000 hectares, far exceeding early official tallies.
• A firefighter died and another was injured when a fire truck overturned at the Yeres blaze in León, bringing the death toll to four as 5,300 residents remain evacuated across 76 towns in Castilla y León.
• Major fronts remain only partly contained: the Yeres/Llamas de Cabrera fire spans about 120 kilometers of perimeter with roughly 20 kilometers uncontrolled, and Jarilla (Cáceres) has burned around 12,000 hectares.
• Spain is receiving its largest EU civil‑protection assistance to date—Canadair aircraft from France and Italy, a Slovak BlackHawk, two Dutch Chinooks, and German and Finnish crews—while high‑speed rail to Galicia is suspended and air quality in parts of Ourense remains poor.