Europe’s Wildfires Have Burned the Most Land in Nearly 20 Years

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Four major heat waves, dry conditions and strong winds have turned Europe into a tinderbox this summer, fueling the most destructive wildfire season in nearly two decades.

Blazes have scorched about 8,948 square kilometers (3,455 square miles) across the European Union in 2025 — more land than in any year since 2006, according to new satellite estimates from the Copernicus space program.

Fire activity has surged in recent weeks as another blast of unseasonable heat sapped the last moisture from Europe’s fields and forests, leaving them primed to ignite. Deadly, wind-whipped blazes have flared from

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