In the European Union, forest and landscape fires have already burned the size of Cyprus in this season, such data has submitted such data to the research service of the European Copyrian country. According to observations, at the moment the fire has become 10 100 square kilometers, which is more than 9300 square kilometers.
Forest fires of 2025 have already become the most important of the EU since 2006. Copernicos recorded this on August 19. At the same time, Cyprus is also among the countries that have suffered the most from the rage of the element. The forest fires covered an area equivalent to 2.3% of the Earth's surface.
With this indicator, the country is inferior only to Spain, where the fire burned forests and vegetation in 3% of the country. In total, all forest fires are estimated at 4000 square kilometers on this season. More than a thousand square kilometers burned in Portugal and Romania (2700 and 1200, respectively).
Copernikos provides data on forest fires only for the period since 2006. Forest fires detection system was introduced through satellite communication monitoring in 2003. The service website states that this system registers about 95% of all forest fires in the region.
