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Climate change behind deadly Iberian fires
Cape Argus
|September 05, 2025
HUMAN-caused climate change made the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled deadly wildfires in Spain and Portugal last month 40 times more likely, researchers said yesterday.
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The Iberian Peninsula saw unusually high temperatures throughout August, with thermometers topping 40C in many areas.
The persistent heat fanned wildfires - mainly in northern Portugal and western and northwestern Spain - that killed four people in each country, forced the evacuation of thousands, and ravaged vast areas of land.
In Spain, more than 380 000 hectares have burned this year — a record annual total and nearly five times the annual average, according to the European Forest Fire Information System.
This story is from the September 05, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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