Weather that drove Iberian wildfires is 40 times more likely due to climate change, report says

FILE PHOTO: A pyrocumulus cloud forms as smoke rises from a wildfire as seen from a cemetery in the village of Vilarmel, Lugo area, Galicia region, Spain, August 16, 2025. REUTERS/Mikel Konate/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) -The hot, dry and windy conditions this summer that fueled the worst wildfires in Spain for at least three decades are 40 times more likely to recur due to human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution.

World Weather Attribution is an international collaboration that has conducted over 110 studies on the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events.