The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The largest wildfire France has seen in nearly 80 years – ripping through forests, villages and vineyards in the southern Aude department – has been contained, but officials warn it will keep burning for days. Among the hardest-hit areas is the Corbières wine region, where flames destroyed vineyards already weakened…

The inferno devastated an area of southern France the size of Paris after erupting on Tuesday afternoon

France is battling its largest wildfire in decades, which has already burned more than 60 square miles in the south and killed one person

Rising temperatures pose new challenges for firefighters who have made incremental progress against a massive wildfire in central California that has injured four people as it has become the biggest blaze in the state so far this year

Deadly blaze in France and mass evacuations in Spain and Portugal as extreme temperatures fuel fire risk

Advancing blaze scorches 16,000 hectares near Spanish border, destroying homes and forcing people to flee

Mediterranean countries are a growing wildfire hotspot, with scientists warning that climate change is driving increasingly hot and dry summers

Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Wednesday.

Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battled to halt the spread of a wildfire in southern France that has scorched a vast area, killed one person and injured nine others.