Overview
- Over the weekend of Aug. 1–2, gale‑force winds turned Greece into the active hotspot, forcing sea evacuations, destroying homes and killing three firefighters.
- France’s vast Gironde/Bordeaux wildfire has been held inside its perimeter but remains active in sectors with buried hot spots and parts of the Cap Ferret area still evacuated.
- A separate Var/Provence blaze has stabilised without being fully contained, leaving thousands displaced and about 1,300–1,500 firefighters on the line.
- Rapid attribution studies and EU climate services say human‑caused warming materially raised the odds of the extreme heat and drought that primed this season’s blazes.
- International help, including Australian aircraft and crews and EU civil‑protection reinforcements, is supplementing exhausted national teams as officials warn containment does not mean fires are extinguished.