US EditionDrought, Rural Exodus, Impreparation: You Are Explained Why the Fires Are Causing Considerable Devastation in Spain This Summer
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Castile and Leon are among the regions hardest hit by fires in north-western Spain, with more than 350,000 hectares ravaged in about 10 days.
The forest fires continue to advance in several parts of Spain despite the decrease in temperatures. Jumilla’s fire, the largest in Extremadura’s history, has already been suffocated after calcining about 17,000 hectares and much of the UME equipment has been withdrawn. However, the situation remains complicated in Galicia, with seven active hot spots and almost 79,000 hectares burning mainly in Orense, and in Castile and León, which has ten act…
In the face of the devastation that Galicia, Castile and León and other regions suffer, the PP resorts time and again to concepts such as "intentional fire" or "pyromaniac criminal activity", disorienting public debate and blurring the real problem: the collapse of the prevention model and the absence of coherent forest policies.The dialectical smoke that clouds reality Flames are not the product of a supernatural phenomenon, nor do they arise f…
Galicia and Castile and León accounted for 85.3% of the hectares burned in Spain between August 3 and 18, 2025, during the wave of wildfires, according to data from the European Commission's Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) and Copernicus. Of the total 358,034 hectares burned to date between those two days across the country, 43.6% were in Galicia (i.e., 156,444) and 41.7% in Castile and León (i.e., 149,426). Extremadura ranked third, with…
Galicia and Castilla y León accumulated 85.3% of the hectares (ha) that have burned in Spain between 3 and 18 August 2025, according to data from the Forest Fire Information System of the European Commission (EFFIS) of Copernicus to which Europe Press has had access.
More than 150,000 hectares have already been burned in Castile and León, almost 97,000 of them in the province of León, so this province adds 65% of this extension, according to the latest update of the estimate of experts working on the update of the edu.forestry.es tool, elaborated on the basis of satellite information collected from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).Read more]]>
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