“Extremely extreme fire danger” was forecast in parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece on Monday, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

“Extremely Extreme Hazard” is the highest level of risk on the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)/Fire Weather Index (FWI) scale.

Lower fire rates – “extreme danger” – are expected in other parts of Europe, including the UK, France, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Romania and Croatia.

EFFIS is one of the modules of Copernicus Emergency Management Services, which provides daily fire hazard forecasts based on the Fire Weather Index (FWI).

There is also a forest fire hazard warning across Slovenia, with the danger level being “extreme” in the southwest of the country, according to METEOALARM, the integration of Europe’s national weather service and part of the European Weather Services Network.

In Greece, hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain wildfires across the country. 320 firefighters in 68 trucks and two firefighting planes battled for a fifth day of battling a fire in Dadia National Park, near the Evros border region, in the northeast of the country, where the only black vulture colony in the Balkans was found.

Greece’s Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Christos Stylianides, who remains in the area, stated on Monday: “It’s another tough night, here in Dadia, with the fires rekindled”, adding that especially people from vulnerable groups with respiratory disorders. problem had to be evacuated.

“It’s an uphill battle, it’s a battle to secure the future of this incredible ecosystem,” he added.

Firefighters are still battling a third day of blazes on the island of Lesbos and in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

In France, two wildfires in the Gironde region have been contained, the Nouvelle Aquitaine and Gironde prefectures said Monday. All evacuated residents can now return to their homes, the prefecture added on Twitter.

The fire warning comes as Europe continues to experience high temperatures.

In Spain, there is a high temperature warning across much of the south of the country, with warnings for extreme temperatures of up to 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the area around the cities of Seville, Huelva and Murcia, according to the agency. Spain’s national weather forecaster AEMET.

There are also high temperature warnings in southern France, Switzerland, Italy and the Balkans, according to METEOALARM.