Wildfires

High state of alert for wildfires on Tuesday due to heat, arid conditions

High fire risk persists in Greece as temperatures set to reach 37°C over the weekend and strong northerly winds continue.

Homeowners are calling on municipal authorities to clear away empty properties which pose a serious threat of fire in the summer.

Last year,  over half a million (504,002) hectares, an area twice the size of Luxembourg, was scorched by wildfires, according to an advance report on Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2023 published today by the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). The report shows that fires intensified during summer 2023, affecting mostly the Mediterranean […]

Fire fighters are battling a massive forest fire in the Pierian Mountains in Northern Greece which broke out on Sunday morning and continues to burn for a third consecutive day

The EU has added large-scale forest fires and air, water and soil pollution to its list of environmental offences, and is tightening sanctions

A deadly train crash killing 57 people, mostly students, fires ravaging though rich forests and floods killing several people marked Greece in 2023

Ninety-seven fatalities and 31 missing in fires that ravaged Hawaii in August, 34 deaths in Algeria, 28 in Greece…

In 2022, land roughly the size of Corsica was scorched by wildfires across the EU