Climate change is helping to make wildfires that ravage hundreds of thousands of hectares of land on the Iberian Peninsula every year more common and intense, according to a new study.

Researchers from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network said in the study released on Thursday that the hot and dry conditions driving wildfires in Portugal and Spain, as well as other parts of Europe, were 40 times more likely to occur because of climate change.

The publication comes weeks after a heatwave and deadly wildfires hit Europe, highlighting similar findings warning of increasingly fire-conducive weather conditions in the Mediterranean.

“The fires in Spain in 2025 were the worst in 30 years, almost quadrupling the average annual area burned during that period,” the WWA concluded.

“In Po

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