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About 800 firefighters, and hundreds of soldiers and soldiers were sent to fight the flames west of Bordeaux.
Published on 23 Jul 2026
More than 20,000 holidaymakers have been forced to flee south-west France due to wildfires.
About 800 firefighters were battling the blaze 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Bordeaux on Thursday, with hundreds of soldiers and soldiers joining the effort.
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Firefighting planes have been dropping water since the fire broke out on Wednesday. Officials and people in the area said the fire appears to have been started by a brush washing machine.
The fire started in the village of Saumos, before spreading to Lege-Cap-Ferret.
Lege-Cap-Ferret is known for its sand dunes, winding roads and oyster tanks.
The fire raged through dense pine forest, spreading over 3,400 hectares (8,500 acres), an area five times the size of Gibraltar, firefighters said.
Three buildings have been gutted by the flames and a number of pedestrians have been injured, but no injuries have been reported so far.
The European Union sent three bombers after France asked for help, EU officials said.
France has been hit by three waves since May as part of a series of increasingly severe weather linked to climate change, which is causing thousands of deathsdrying up rivers and fueling wildfires.
“The weather is not on our side,” said Lege-Cap-Ferret Mayor Philippe de Gonneville. “We have temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), and the wind has moved to the east and northeast and is very strong.”
Two firefighters died this week battling a fire near Bordeaux airport. Fire unions blamed a lack of resources and said workers were exhausted.
Earlier this month, wildfires destroyed nearly 10 percent of the UNESCO-listed Fontainebleau forest outside Paris, in a rare blaze as far north as this one.
A fire in 2022 destroyed 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of forest in France, forcing nearly 50,000 people to evacuate.
Across Europe, three consecutive heat waves this season have exacerbated droughts, drained rivers and left vegetation withered, helping wildfires burn more land this year than the annual average for the past two decades on the world’s hottest continent. This heat wave has also caused thousands of deaths.
