We are starting the week’s live blog slightly later this week’s where our attention is geared towards southern Europe as extensive and large amount of wildfires are breaking out as a result of months of extreme heat and dry conditions.
We will track the active and emerging wildfires and report on the fatalities and overall impacts as data comes in, and will look at how governments are responding to the wildfire and crisis combined with viewpoints from experts.
It is updated dayly for the remainder of the week and into early next week.
Greece: While France and Spain have been taking the majority of the 2026 European wildfires, other parts of the continent is causing concerns with wildfires in Greece and Turkey spreading and causing evacuations.
In Greece the wildfires have claimed the lives of three firefighters.
Tuesday 28th of July 2026
22:10 GMT
Spain: The largest wildfire in Spain, the 2026 Almería wildfire, that started on the 9th of July in the region of Andalusia and is still active have so far claimed the lives of 14 people and have burned at least 7,000 hectares (ha) and is the worst in Andalusian history.
Map illustrating the size of the 2026 Almeria wildfires which started on the 9th of July 2026. Photo credit: Dani Plaza Herrera (@DatosAlmeria) – via Wikimedia – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monday 27th of July 2026
16:10 GMT
EU: The European Union (EU) has warned that it may not be before November before the record-breaking wildfires have all been extonguished.
16:00 GMT
Heatwave: France and Germany, the two countries that more than any European countries are impacted by the European wildfires are in a race against time to extinguish as many fires as possible before the next heatwave hits in the coming days.
Saturday 25th of July 2026
23:25 GMT
Scotland: Northern Europe are not immune to wildfires. In the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, the Scottish government has declared an emergency after hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate their homes after a wildfire has broken out.
Yesterday the police evacuated an entire village, Nethy Bridge where 600 people live.
12:00 GMT
France: Not even into August yet, and 2026 have already become the worst wildfire year yet on record.
2026 has surpassed 2022 in terms of most land-area burned. Data released by the EU’s European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), 69,473 hectares of land have burned in the country since the beginning of 2026. In 2022 66,337 hectares. Effis have been collecting burned land-area since 2006.
Friday 24th of July 2026
16:10 GMT
Active wildfires: The below tracker shows the current active wildfires in Europe:
🇵🇹 Portugal
🟠 Local active fires
Northern Portugal
Very High
🇪🇸 Spain
🔴 National wildfire emergency
Ávila, Madrid region, Castilla y León
Very Extreme
🇫🇷 France
🔴 Multiple major wildfires
Gironde (Cap Ferret), Landes (Biscarrosse)
Very Extreme
🇮🇹 Italy
🟠 Multiple active fires
Sicily, Sardinia
Very High
🇬🇷 Greece
🟠 Local active fires
Attica, Central Greece
Extreme
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🟠 Multiple fires
Western Türkiye, İzmir Province
Very High
🇭🇷 Croatia
🟡 Isolated incidents
Adriatic coast
High
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🟡 Local fires
Inland forests
High
🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina
🟡 Scattered incidents
Central mountains
High
🇷🇸 Serbia
🟡 Small outbreaks
Southern Serbia
High
🇦🇱 Albania
🟠 Several active fires
Southern mountain regions
High
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🟠 Active
Central forests
High
🇷🇴 Romania
🟡 Local woodland fires
Carpathian Mountains
Moderate
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🟠 Several fires
Southern Bulgaria
High
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🟢 None significant
—
Moderate
🇦🇹 Austria
🟢 Very few
Alpine forests
Moderate
🇩🇪 Germany
🟡 Local woodland fires
Brandenburg, Saxony
Moderate
🇵🇱 Poland
🟡 Isolated fires
Eastern forests
Moderate
🇸🇪 Sweden
🟡 Small forest fires
Central Sweden
Elevated
🇫🇮 Finland
🟡 Local forest fires
Northern Finland
Elevated
🇳🇴 Norway
🟢 Minimal
—
Low
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🟠 Multiple heath and moorland fires
Cairngorms National Park (Scotland), Southern England
High
🇮🇪 Ireland
🟡 Local moorland fires
Wicklow Mountains
Elevated
15:55 GMT
Wildfire evacuations: Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate from the south-western part of France as wildfire conditions have been worsening alongside the Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic Coast.
More than 10,000 hectares are impacted by the the two largest wildfires in the region.
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