Proveneya & Nahiara · Updated Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Wildfires 2026 — daily update. Pollinators are victims too — and they deserve to be counted. They are the great unknown of these fires, absent from the reporting.

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Europe

  • Spain — 207,000 ha burned in 2026, six times the same period of 2025. August is the highest-risk month; 2025 remains this century's worst year, with nearly 400,000 ha burned.
  • New active fronts in León, Ávila and Cáceres.
  • Greece — A new wave of fires and evacuations near Athens is driven by strong winds; the greater Athens area is on maximum alert, with temperatures forecast above 42°C. The Boeotia fire burned 10,000 ha and forced over 1,000 evacuations; three firefighters have died nationwide. Another front in Rethymno, Crete remains critical.
  • France — 116,000 ha burned, an absolute historic record and nearly double its previous worst year (2022). The Gironde megafire burned for over a week; a local wildlife sanctuary reports hundreds of thousands of animals killed while fleeing.
  • Portugal — Viseu fire: about 13,000 ha, with aid requested from the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. At peak, 39 active fires were counted nationwide; risk was maximum or very high across much of the country.
  • Italy — Estimates range from 40,000 to more than 100,000 ha nationwide; Sicily and Calabria are the worst-hit areas. No single consolidated official figure is available.
  • European Union — 254,000–275,000 ha burned since January, more than double the 2006–2025 historical average. Over 300,000 people were evacuated or confined in France and Spain during July; the figure is still rising with Greece's August crisis.

Africa

  • Algeria — At the July 18 peak, 154 fires were declared in 24 hours; 6 people died and about 150 homes were affected in Annaba. Residents fought the fire with their bare hands due to lack of resources.

Asia

  • Turkey — About 95,000 ha burned, seven times the 2008–2020 historical average for this time of year.
  • Russia (Siberia) — About 600,000 ha burned cumulatively in 2026; 84,356 ha were active at peak in Krasnoyarsk, Yamalo-Nenets and Irkutsk. Authorities link the increase to anomalous temperatures.

North America

  • Canada — 3,848 fires and 2.92 million ha burned since January. Ontario is the hardest-hit province: Thunder Bay 36 has burned 314,000 ha and remains uncontained.
  • United States — Fire alert raised to maximum level.

South America

  • Ecuador — On August 11, seven fires were active and four controlled, according to the National Risk Management Secretariat. The Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve fire has burned at least 300 ha of páramo, threatening protected flora and fauna. More than 4,000 ha burned nationwide in early August; the Cuambo fire burned 1,443 ha before it was extinguished on August 5.
  • Brazil — 1.76 million ha burned in 2026 (satellite/GWIS), with 4,682 fire events. The Ministry of Environment warns of greater risk from August to October as the dry season begins.

Oceania

  • Australia — The southern-summer fire season (December–May) has passed. January's peak burned more than 400,000 ha in Victoria alone, with a state of disaster declared in 18 local governments. It is now southern winter, with no significant activity.

Global context

Sources: MITECO, EFFIS/Copernicus, French Interior Ministry, Portuguese Civil Protection, Italian Civil Protection, Algerian Civil Protection, Turkish Meteorological Service, Russian Federal Forest Agency, Government of Canada (CIFFC), GWIS/Brazil Ministry of Environment, Ecuador SNGR/ECU 911, AFAC/NEMA Australia, Reuters, France 24, CNN, Greenpeace Spain, NOAA, Copernicus Marine Service.

S.A.N. Code Calculator

Fibonacci Nomenclature System — assigning a unique numerical identifier to every species in the Nahiara universe

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Enter the complete scientific name of any species

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How It Works

1

Enter the scientific name — use the complete official scientific name of the species.

2

Select a category — F for flowers, P for pollinators, G for guardians.

3

Each letter maps to a Fibonacci value — all letters are converted to lowercase, then each letter's Fibonacci value is summed. Spaces and punctuation are ignored.

4

The result is the SAN number — formatted as SAN-{category}-{number}

SAN Code Format

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SAN-F-XXXXX

Flower

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SAN-P-XXXXX

Pollinator

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SAN-G-XXXXX

Guardian

Part of the original scientific protocols of the Nahiara universe