{"id":81055,"date":"2026-08-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:00:00","slug":"half-as-many-fires-but-four-times-the-damage-the-uks-unprecedented-wildfire-crisis-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81055\/","title":{"rendered":"Half as many fires but four times the damage &#8211; the UK&#8217;s unprecedented wildfire crisis explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Half as many fires but four times the damage - the UK&#039;s unprecedented wildfire crisis explained\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWQR3k1vfFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHalf as many fires but four times the damage &#8211; the UK&#8217;s unprecedented wildfire crisis explained<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSky News data and forensics team reveals over 18,800 hectares of land have burned across England and Wales, setting a record for this point in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that, despite fewer fires being recorded, more catastrophic damage to homes and infrastructure is being caused due to bone-dry conditions, threatening lives if urgent action isn&#8217;t taken.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/wildfires-9575\/1<\/p>\n<p>#wildfire #fire #uk #england #wales #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half as many fires but four times the damage &#8211; the UK&#8217;s unprecedented wildfire crisis explained Sky News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[473,2414,4833,281,31,1520,296,2718,52001,3376,9795],"class_list":["post-81055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-analysis","tag-climate","tag-data","tag-fire","tag-news","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-weather","tag-wild","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117139062492546131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}