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Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU
(www.theguardian.com)
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Largest since 2000 when they started tracking these things in an integrated way across the EU. Not the largest in european history or anything like that. It's only 810 km², which seems small...
Context: On a global scale the Greek fire is trivial. Canada has had 150,000 km² burn this year -- multiple orders of magnitude worse (the area burned is larger than the entire country of Greece...). The Greek fire is notable on a regional scale, and it likely sucks for those involved. But it's sort of missing the elephant in the room on a global scale.
Furthermore, who was tracking European fires prior to 2000? There's got to be some database that's been compiled about historical fires to put this in context. Wikipedia has good compilations of fire info for north america, but nothing useful for Europe...