Forest fires in Sweden - huge areas burned in 2018

The summer 2018 is already now marked as a historical warm and dry summer as well in Sweden as in many other countries in Europe. July has never been as hot as this year since collection of Swedish weather data was started for 260 years ago. The result has been many and large wildfires in the forests. In totalt it’s estimated that more than 25 000 hectares and almost 3 million cubic meter wood were destroyed by fire in the Swedish forests. This is far more than we are used to.