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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BRUSSELS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — Forest fires have engulfed nearly 895,000 hectares of the European Union this year, more than four times the area recorded in the same period in 2024, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) said on Tuesday.
The area of fires has more than doubled compared to last week /439,568 hectares/, which indicates the rapid spread of forest fires in recent days.
This year's figure is well above the 19-year average of 244,000 hectares by mid-August, according to the JRC's latest weekly report.
Ireland, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, northern Germany, Poland, Denmark and parts of Sweden and Finland face “very high to extreme” levels of fire danger.
According to the JRC, on average, more than 60,000 forest fires break out in the EU every year, burning around 500,000 hectares, almost twice the size of Luxembourg, and causing human casualties and economic losses of around €2 billion (around $2.33 billion). –0–
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