European Forest Fire Information System

Power plants were forced to throttle back or completely shut down operations due to a lack of sufficiently cool river water required for thermal and nuclear reactor cooling, while hydroelectric generation plummeted to historical lows.

Concurrently, data published by the European Forest Fire Information System confirmed that fire weather severity in twenty twenty six reached the worst levels ever documented on record.

Explosive wildfire activity consumed vast tracts of forest land, degraded regional air quality, and forced mass evacuations across Mediterranean and Central European territories.

Samantha Burgess, a senior climate scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, emphasized that heat stress has cemented its position as the primary cause of weather-related mortality globally.

There is a specific European data set.

So this is only looking at the European Union, which is the European Forest Fire Information System, which I think gets closer to the definition of what people would think about when they think about a wildfire.

It tries to exclude some of this agricultural burn.

And the EFFIS, their estimates for this year for Europe, has it running at the second highest year on record.