Greece has been plagued by the daily outbreak of dozens of fires over the past week as gale-force winds and hot, dry summer conditions combine to whip up flames and hamper firefighting efforts.

Greece’s wildfires have devoured a third of the total forest land in the northeast of Athens, a European Union satellite mapping agency said. An area of more than 104 sq. kilometers (40 sq ...

A house burns in Varnava village during a wildfire, north of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. Many regions of the country are on high alert due to high temperatures and winds.

ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including one in the country's northeast that officials ...

Constantia Dimoglidou, a spokeswoman for the Greek police, said that 30,000 people had been rescued from areas beset by wildfires, describing it as the “biggest fire evacuation ever in Greece.” ...

Flames burn a forest during wildfires near the village of Sykorrahi, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, on Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras) ...

The fire around Dadia was still burning on Wednesday, for a 12th consecutive day. A record 198,000 acres have burned in the broader Evros region since the blazes began on Aug. 19. Greece is at the ...

Greece struggles to control the European Union’s largest-ever wildfire and other blazes A wildfire burns a forest near the town of Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece on Wednesday.