Forest Fires Burn More than 152,500 Hectares in Spain so Far This Year
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DEXYPTAGE - The country is about to experience a new heat wave starting on Wednesday increasing the risk of fire, while the flames have devoured 75 000 hectares in a few days.
The peninsular center accumulates about ten large simultaneous fires that have caused more than 11,500 evacuees and the burning of more than 207,000 hectares so far this year, according to the latest official balances
While fires near the capital have "slowed their pace", the authorities remain on the alert, while more than 150,000 hectares have been hit by flames since the beginning of the year.
Chronology of the fires in Spain during 2026. The current year is leaving an indelible mark on the Spanish mountains because of fire. The combination of prolonged drought, suffocating heat waves and violent winds, combined with human negligence, has unleashed an unprecedented wave of megafires. The emergency started very early in Cantabria and spread quickly throughout the rest of the national territory. By the time summer came, the count of lar…
While from the political stand everything trusts the global thermometer and rural civil society cries out against "laws of law" that they consider asphyxiating, forest science and social ecologism agree to look at the soil
Madrid, 26 Jul (EFE).- Spain faces a new scenario of increasingly rapid, intense and unpredictable forest fires: the so-called ‘sixth generation fires or megafires’, capable of modifying the atmospheric conditions of the environment, generating fire storms and overflowing the capacity of the extinguishing devices. They are often sinister from various hot spots and of an evolution difficult to predict, such as those affecting the center of the co…
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