US EditionRecord wildfires burn more than 1 million hectares of EU land this year
Spain accounts for nearly 40% of the EU's over one million hectares burned, with a heatwave causing almost 350,000 hectares lost in two weeks, officials reported.
- Wildfires have ravaged more than one million hectares in the European Union in 2025, surpassing the annual record of 988,524 hectares burnt in 2017.
- Spain, Cyprus, Germany, and Slovakia have experienced their worst wildfire years in two decades of data, with Spain accounting for nearly 40% of the EU's burnt area.
- By 19 August, wildfires in 22 EU countries had emitted an unprecedented 35 megatons of CO2, potentially surpassing the 2017 annual record of 41 megatons.
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An area larger than Cyprus has so far fallen victim to the numerous forest fires in the EU this year. One million hectares of land has been destroyed - more than ever since the beginning of the records. In some places it still burns.
Plant fires have burned over a million hectares of land in the European Union so far, the largest surface registered in a year since the start of the EU registrations in 2006, according to EU data, will inform Reuters.
According to data from the European Forest Fire Information System, more than 1 million hectares have already burned in the European Union since the beginning of 2025. This is a record since the collection of these statistics two decades ago. - Fires: more than 1 million hectares left in smoke in the EU in 2025, a record (Weather and Weather).
The fires of 2025 have already exceeded the record number of hectares burned in 2017, while several countries are still fighting the fires.
Largest burnt area since the introduction of the statistics of the European forest fire information system 2006
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ObservadorThis year has already expired in Portugal 274,000 hectares, according to the estimates of EFFIS. Although it is far from the 2017 annual record, it is a record for the date of 21 August.
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