The Area Heated in August Has Already Exceeded July: More than 74 Thousand Hectares Have Been Consumed by the Calls This Year.

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The autonomous community that is being most affected by fire is Castilla y León, which in the early afternoon counts a total of 18 active fires.

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According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, 439,568 hectares have been burned during the year, which dramatically exceeds the average of the last 19 years for the same period. The report, which considers fires of more than 30 hectares, records 1,628 casualties in 2025, a significantly higher number than the 1,089 fires last year. The carbon emissions associated with these events are estimated at 14.11 million tons of…

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As of August 13, Spain has counted a total of 31 large forest fires – those that exceed 500 hectares of forest area, or 250 in the case of the Canary Islands – that, according to initial estimates, have calcined 84,432 hectares. The figure triples the area razed in the same period of 2024, when 19 such casualties were recorded with a total of 27,556 hectares affected. The data come from the maps prepared daily by forest expert Celso Coco, who pu…

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They burned nearly 40 thousand hectares on the first 14 days of August, revealed the provisional data of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Floresta

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The estimates published today by the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), based on satellite images of the European Copernicus programme, also show that Portugal is the third country of the European Union with more heated areas this year, after Spain (148.205) and Romania (123.816). The heated air this year is nine times more than during the same period last year and the second largest since 2017.