The administrative tally trails only 2025 and places four-fifths of the area in 45 large fires. Copernicus reports a different estimate because it uses satellite scars and another cutoff.
Thousands of people were evacuated, three firefighters died in France and Italy, and Spain is nearing 120,000 hectares burned in a season shaped by heat and rising fire risk.
The Guadalajara fire has burned more than 32,000 hectares, forced evacuations across dozens of villages and exposed how extreme heat, dryness and wind are raising wildfire risk across the Mediterranean.