Fires Raze Nearly 200,000 Hectares in the State so Far This Year, Six Times More than in 2025
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Madrid, 5 Aug (EFE).- The forest fires have burned almost 200,000 hectares in Spain so far this year, although the situation today is "significantly better" than in the previous weeks, according to the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. Specifically, today, the forest hectares burned in Spain are 194,122, almost six times more than in the same period of 2025, according to the third vice president of the Governm…
Noticias de Navarra
noticiasdealava.eusThe forest hectares burned in the State so far this year rise, to date, to 194,122, almost six times more than the area affected during the same period in 2025 -33,360 hectares-, according to data collected by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
Copernicus satellite data puts Spain's 2026 burned area at over 200,000 hectares, the largest of any EU nation, and the evacuation orders that followed did not check passports before deciding who needed to leave
By the time anyone outside Spain was paying close attention, the number had already stopped sounding like a wildfire and started sounding like a geography lesson. Data from the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation program put Spain’s burned area for 2026 at over 200,000 hectares — roughly 0.4 percent of the entire country, the largest proportional toll of any EU member state this year. The fires included the largest single blaze ever recorded in Sp…
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