Authorities evacuated France’s Cap Ferret peninsula and districts as winds and temperatures up to 37°C fueled its largest wildfire this year; Spain declared its first national wildfire emergency, displacing 60,000 people, as one man was arrested

“I’ve lived here for 36 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” a resident of Navaluenga told Reuters.

Spain has seen an estimated 500 square miles already burned this year, over four times the amount of terrain that was burned through the first half of 2025.