EU: The scorching heat in Europe may still go strong in 2022, but that year has already broken records. According to the European Union's satellite monitoring service, about 660,000 hectares of land has been destroyed since January.

And while the Mediterranean has generally been the main hotbed of fires in Europe, other nations have suffered greatly this year as well.

This year's fires have forced residents of European Union countries such as Austria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain to flee their homes, destroy buildings and burn forests.

Data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) showed that about 659,541 hectares (1.6 million acres) have been destroyed so far, setting a record at this point since data collection began in 2006. has gone.

Experts believe that human-induced climate change is to blame for a string of heatwaves, wildfires and historic droughts that have affected Europe.

They issue a warning that longer and more frequent heatwaves are imminent. It took thousands of firefighters nearly two weeks to extinguish the largest wildfire in Slovenia's modern history.

An area three times larger than the annual average has been destroyed by fires in France over the past ten years, as well as active in the alpine Jura, Isre and Ardche regions last week.

According to European Copernicus satellite data, the 2022 French wildfires released more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, than any heat since records began in 2003. This amount was more than one million tons.

Spain, however, has been the country most affected by the fire, with 244,924 hectares of land destroyed, followed by Portugal and Romania, with 150,528 hectares (77,292 hectares) each.
The European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service provides the satellite data used by EFFIS (CAMS).

The information was released after CAMS warned that a large part of Western Europe was now at "extreme fire risk" and that 2022 was a record year for wildfire activity in southwestern Europe.

According to EFFIS coordinator Jesus San-Miguel, "at 2022, this is already a record year, only slightly behind 2017." As of 13 August 2017, 420,913 hectares had been incinerated, and by the end of the year, 988,087 hectares.

While we are still in the middle of fire season, he said, "Drought and extremely high temperature conditions have affected the whole of Europe this year. The overall situation in the region is worrying."

He said that since 2010 there has been an increase in fires in central and northern Europe, including fires in countries with "generally no fires in their territory".

Except in years like this, when fires also occur in the central and northern regions, "the overall fire season in the EU is actually driven primarily by countries in the Mediterranean region," he continued.

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