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Spain battles 14 major fires with 'unfavourable conditions' expected to fuel more
- At least three people have died amid a severe wildfire season in Spain, where fires are burning across multiple regions including Leon and Galicia as of August 2025.
- Southern Europe's rising temperatures and recurring droughts, driven by human-induced climate change, have turned landscapes into tinderboxes fueling longer wildfire seasons and widespread evacuations.
- Emergency responders are under significant strain as they rescue thousands and combat wildfires fueled by heatwaves and strong winds, while authorities have taken into custody 11 individuals suspected of starting fires in Spain.
- This year, Spain has seen 199 wildfires that have burned nearly 98,784 hectares, which is over twice the land affected compared to the same timeframe in 2024, leading to deteriorating air quality and increased risks to public health.
- The fires highlight the urgent need for prevention and climate adaptation measures, as emphasized by Spain's environment minister who linked the blazes directly to climate change impacts.
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The value of heat and drought remains the vegetarian fires that sweep south of Europe. Portugal, Greece and Turkey are faced with a hard focus of control, while in Spain more than 150,000 hectares of land have been mixed with floods. The floods continue, and the balance of the victims is increasing.
Spain is facing a wave of devastating fires in the northwest and west of the country Spain, entering its third week of heatwave alert, continues to fight
Heat and drought in southern Europe are taking their toll. In western Spain, the continuing fires destroyed 157,000 hectares of forest. And the national weather authority is also forecasting extreme temperatures – and a high fire risk for the coming days.
Unbelievable heat, fires out of control and grieving helpers – Spain stands at the abyss of a fire-catastrophe summer. A weather column of Dominik Jung.
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