Wildfires are increasing across Southern and Southeastern Europe due to climate change, posing severe risks.
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The summer wildfire season is particularly severe across Southern and Southeastern Europe. In Bulgaria, over one hundred and fifty fires erupted in July due to hot weather and irresponsible human behavior, with a noted lack of firefighting equipment like helicopters. Long-term trends show that areas at high fire risk in Europe have doubled over the last fifty years. This year, wildfires burned 38,000 hectares in Bulgaria and over three thousand hectares in Cyprus, both exceeding historical averages for those countries. Climate change is strongly linked to these widespread fires across the Mediterranean, bringing more intense heatwaves, prolonged droughts, and low humidity. While some regions have monitoring systems, the problem is systemic. Greece has seen a dramatic increase in burned forest area, with 2023 being particularly severe, despite having fewer firefighters per capita than France; however, the scale of fires in Greece remains significantly larger. The increasing frequency of fire weather due to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall is also affecting areas like Sweden, the Baltic region, and the Czech Republic.
