It has been burning during large heatwaves, in the difficult-to-access terrain of the Malinový důl gorge in the national park area near Hřensko.

Firefighters have been working since Sunday morning, they also evacuated dozens of tourists,[7] 60 people from the camp in Dolský mlýn and residents of the village of Mezná.

Two Canadair water bombers were deployed and two Dash aircraft, with additional reinforcements allocated from other areas of France.

The prefect, Fabienne Buccio placed the Gironde department on Orange alert due to the weather conditions and the risk of other forest fires.

[17]By the morning of 15 July, 3,150 hectares (7,800 acres) had burnt at the La Teste-de-Buch, the fire having reached the lake at Cazaux while 10,000 people had been evacuated so far.

President Emmanuel Macron visited the Ministry of Interior's crisis centre in Paris to be briefed on the progress to fight the fire.

[23] On 16 July, some inhabitants of Cazaux were allowed through to retrieve belongings and pets while others could not go due to the road to the town being overrun again by fire.

Jean-Marc Pelletant, mayor of Landiras said a team of prosecutors from Bordeaux had arrived and were investigating if there was any criminal activity responsible for the fire, a situation he was not aware of.

[32] On 18 July, in the La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras areas, more than 16,000 people were evacuated as fires continue to spread across Gironde.

[33] In Brasparts, Monts d'Arrée, Finistère, a large moorland fire started, forcing the evacuation of 300 people while more than 1700 hectares burned.

[35] As of 12 August 2022,[update] more than 1,000 firefighters were fighting a megafire in Gironde, which has destroyed about 7,400 ha (18,000 acres) of forest and forced 10,000 residents to flee.

[36] Firefighters from Poland, Romania, Austria and Germany[37] and helicopters from Greece, Italy and Sweden helped extinguish the fires.

On 25 July, a forest fire covering an area of 800 ha (2,000 acres) led to the evacuation of 700 people in the villages of Rehfeld and Kölsa in the state of Brandenburg.

[38] Wildfires in the Czech Republic crossed the border to the Saxon Switzerland on 25 July 2022 with fires near Großer Winterberg and Kirnitzschtal.

[56] A fire in the municipality of Palmela in the Lisbon metropolitan area burned 400 hectares (990 acres) of bush and caused 12 injuries.

By the end of the day, approximately 2,000 people and several domestic as well as foreign aircraft succeeded in stopping these wildfires from spreading further.

At that time, many of the people who fought the flames the previous day already left the affected areas and all foreign aircraft returned to their home countries.

As strong winds and slow-burning flames could still start a new spread, a total of 518 people, including approximately 325 firefighters, kept monitoring the situation in the most critical parts of the affected areas.

As it was assessed that strong winds could still contribute to flames igniting in natural environments, a total of 143 firefighters remained on location during the day and their number was reduced to 58 during the night.

[67] In the early morning of 27 July, a wildfire broke out at a previously unaffected location in the municipality of Komen, but it was soon put under control by a total of 180 firefighters and only an estimated 20 ha (49 acres) of land were burnt.

A number of smaller fires also broke out in the previously affected areas as firefighters and helicopter crews continued to monitor the situation.

[68] In the days that followed, they only reported minor fires that burned without spreading and did not register any significant changes on the Slovenian side of the border.

However, a new wildfire started to spread on the Italian side of the border on 28 July, which caused up to 60 Slovenian firefighters and one helicopter to relocate there and assist in the efforts to put it under control.

[70] On 1 August, it was announced that 10 firefighters would continue to monitor these affected areas as long as it would be assessed that flames could ignite in natural environments.

The estimation in regard to the land area affected by the Karst wildfires on the Slovenian side of the border was updated to 3,600 ha (8,900 acres) that day, of which approximately 82% were in the municipality of Miren–Kostanjevica.

[71] On 3 August, it was reported that the areas affected by the Karst wildfires on the Slovenian side of the border would be cleared of burnt wood within three weeks.

[72] On 1 August, a wildfire broke out on a hill in the vicinity of Lake Bled, a popular tourist destination, affecting a forest and burning above a railway tunnel, but it was extinguished within hours.

It was thought to be under control by noon, but it started spreading again during the afternoon, when approximately 120 firefighters and several aircraft from both sides of the border were battling the flames.

The affected area, which encompassed an estimated 100 ha (250 acres) of land, was watered and monitored by approximately 150 firefighters and several aircraft the previous day.

[75] In the early afternoon of 17 August, a forest fire broke out in the hills near Zalog, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital Ljubljana.