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Europe must adapt to live with megafires

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  • Víctor Resco de Dios1 &
  • Antoni Margalida2
  1. Jorge Tobajas

    1. University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

  2. Víctor Resco de Dios

    1. University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.

  3. Antoni Margalida

    1. Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Jaca, Spain.

In July, a wildfire threatened a European capital city — Madrid. More than 100,000 people were evacuated and some 200,000 hectares have burnt across Spain — five times the size of the average area burnt by July in the period 2006–25 (see Nature 656, 277–278; 2026). France experienced unprecedented fires, too, with roughly 42,000 hectares burnt and 250,000 people evacuated in the Gironde region. This follows 2025, Europe’s most-destructive wildfire year on record.

Nature 656, 786 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02578-2

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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