EXPLAINED: The Real Reason Europe's Wildfires Won't Stop

By Times Now World

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Europe is having its worst wildfire season ever recorded — for the second year in a row. Here's why nobody can put these fires out. What You Need To Know: A wildfire near Los Gallardos and Bédar in Almería, Spain, has killed 14 people — the deadliest single blaze of Europe's 2026 fire season The EU has burned through 457,000+ hectares as of late July — nearly a third more than the same point in 2025, which was already the worst year on record Spain's Ávila-Madrid-Toledo fire complex is now the largest wildfire in Spanish history, burning 50,000 hectares in under a week Scientists point to "weather whiplash" — a historically wet winter followed by record summer heat — as the core trigger, alongside a decades-old firefighting policy known as the "suppression paradox" Europe's shared rescEU firefighting fleet is stretched past its limits, and replacement aircraft aren't expected until 2028–2033 due to a global supply chain collapse The economic fallout is already reshaping European tour

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