Coverage & sourcesThe 2026 European wildfires, from Spain and France to Greece

Collected articles: every report in this story's record, counted once, in the week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) it was published; a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. Copies of the same wire story count as separate articles. This shows how much we collected, not how important a development was or whether it was independently confirmed. It covers this record only, not all news coverage. Our collection begins in October 2021.

Collected articles per week

672 dated articles from Jun 29, 2026 to the week of August 17, 2026.

Weekly counts, newest first

Collected articles per week
Week of	Articles	Reports
August 17, 2026	16	August 2026 in the record
August 10, 2026	60
August 3, 2026	19
July 27, 2026	223	July 2026 in the record
July 20, 2026	206
July 13, 2026	42
July 6, 2026	100
June 29, 2026	6	June 2026 in the record

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Of 672 dated articles, 19% from left-rated outlets, 39% from center-rated outlets, 2% from local TV counted as center, 15% from right-rated outlets and 25% from outlets not placed left or right.

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Outlets nobody has rated stay in their own group. Local TV newsrooms are counted as center by a published rule, whatever their own rating, and are shown apart from outlets rated center.

Outlet rating	Articles	Share of the 672
Left (left and lean-left outlets) The 22 outlets Philadelphia Inquirer · 51 The Boston Globe · 16 Seattle Times · 15 PBS NewsHour · 11 NPR · 5 Cleveland Plain Dealer · 4 NJ.com / Star-Ledger · 4 ABC News · 3 Honolulu Star-Advertiser · 3 KBRW · 2 Mongabay · 2 NBC News · 2 West Hawaii Today · 2 Hawaiitribune Herald · 1 Jezebel · 1 New York Times · 1 Scientific American · 1 St. Louis Post-Dispatch · 1 The Atlantic · 1 The Week · 1 Time · 1 Truthout · 1	129	19%
Center (outlets rated center) The 65 outlets WFMZ Allentown · 63 WTOP Washington DC · 17 CBS News · 13 The Republic · 13 WHEC Rochester · 13 The Columbian · 11 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette · 10 Phys · 10 Courthouse News Service · 8 UPI · 6 WKBN Youngstown · 6 KOB 4 · 5 The Oregonian · 5 WDIO Duluth · 5 Anchorage Daily News · 4 KENS 5 San Antonio · 4 KESQ Palm Springs · 4 KION Central Coast · 4 WHNT · 4 KRDO · 3 KTVZ Bend · 3 Local News 8 · 3 13News Now Norfolk · 2 ABC 17 Mid-Missouri · 2 KSN Wichita · 2 Vail Daily · 2 WTOL Toledo · 2 10TV Columbus · 1 11Alive Atlanta · 1 13WMAZ Macon · 1 ABC 10 Sacramento · 1 CBS 19 Tyler · 1 CBS 8 San Diego · 1 Crux · 1 Deseret News · 1 Digital Journal · 1 EarthSky · 1 East Idaho News · 1 First Coast News · 1 FOX 43 York · 1 KCEN Waco · 1 KEYT Santa Barbara · 1 KGW Portland · 1 KIII Corpus Christi · 1 KSDK · 1 KVIA El Paso · 1 KVUE · 1 KYMA Yuma · 1 Myarklamiss · 1 Myfox Zone · 1 NBC Boston · 1 News Nation Now · 1 News West 9 · 1 Rocket City Now · 1 The Hill · 1 Thv11 · 1 WANE Fort Wayne · 1 WFAA Dallas · 1 Wfmy News 2 · 1 WGRZ Buffalo · 1 WKYC Cleveland · 1 WNEP · 1 WQAD · 1 WTSP Tampa · 1 WUSA9 · 1	262	39%
Counted as center by rule (local TV newsrooms) The 7 outlets WSVN Miami · 4 WHDH Boston · 2 NBC10 Philadelphia · 1 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth · 1 NBC 6 South Florida · 1 NBC Chicago · 1 NBC Los Angeles · 1	11	2%
Right (right and lean-right outlets) The 15 outlets Jonesboro Sun · 41 Daily Journal · 12 Washington Times · 12 Green Field Reporter · 9 Triblive · 7 AL.com · 4 New York Post · 4 End Time Headlines · 2 High Point Enterprise · 2 Breitbart News · 1 Fox News · 1 Just the News · 1 The Brunswick News · 1 Washington Examiner · 1 Winchester Star · 1	99	15%
Not placed left or right (foreign outlets, entertainment trades) The 8 outlets France 24 · 95 Deutsche Welle · 23 Al Jazeera · 19 BBC News · 14 The Guardian · 14 The Times of Israel · 3 Al-Monitor · 2 Gizmodo · 1	171	25%

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