EU Wildfire Trends 2023

by P. Homewood, Feb 13, 2024 in NotaLotofPeopleKnowThat


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The EU has now published provisional data for wildfires in 2023, so I have updated my graph for the Mediterranean region.

It is quite a surprise, given the headlines devoted to the topic, to see that the area burnt was not even as great as 2022, and well  below  many years in the 1980s and 90s.