The fires have been burned in the European Union since the beginning of 2025, a figure has never been registered

The fires already have 1,015,731 hectares (10,000 square kilometers, km plagued²) In the European Union in 2025, an area that is larger than Corsica and superior to annual data since the start of the statistics in 2006, according to an analysis of the French press office of data from the European Forest Information System (EFFIS) Thursday 21 August. These Effis estimates, an indicator of the European Copernicus Observatory, only taking into account the lights that burned at least 30 hectares.

In 2017, around 988,524 hectares of forest had risen in smoke, more than half of which in Portugal during fires that killed 119. To date, Spain, where more than 400,000 hectares (4,000 km²) Went in smoke, as well as Cyprus, Germany and Slovakia, their highest annual level of areas in twenty years of existing data has already surpassed.

Portugal, of which the most devastating year 2017 was burned with 563,530 hectares, has never reached such a burnt area on August 21 with 274,000 hectares burned. In 2025, three people died in the flames in this country. Then Romania (126,000 hectares) and France and 35,600 hectares of forest are reduced to ashes, especially in the Aude destroyed by a gigantic fire at the beginning of August.