Advance report on Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2025

This report contains the annual summary of the wildfire season of 2025 on the basis of data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). It is published early in 2026 to provide an advance comprehensive analysis of the wildfire season 2025. The analysis and data in the report complement the near-real time data provided in the web applications of EFFIS during 2025 and precede the complete analysis of the 2025 wildfire season that will be published in collaboration with the EFFIS country network in the last quarter of 2026. The report includes an analysis of the fire danger situation in 2025 and correlates this with the impact of wildfires, which is represented by the burnt areas mapped in the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). Furthermore, the report provides a time series comparison of the fire danger situation and the impact of wildfires in 2025 in relation to the historical overview of the data series in EFFIS.