Wildfires across southwestern Europe forced more than 300,000 people from their homes in late July as heat, wind, and dry fuel turned separate blazes in France, Spain, and Portugal into a regional emergency.
The BBC's more-than-300,000 figure across France, Spain, and Portugal is the best single public tally for the mid-to-late July wave.
Even that package was not enough for local officials trying to hold villages and industrial edges at once.
Authorities that lift orders still ask for alertness because a shift in wind can reopen a flank that looked cold at dawn and was not.
Capacity is a budget choice made in cold months, not a miracle requested in a heatwave press conference.
More than 300,000 people fled wildfires across France, Spain, and Portugal. Gironde and Madrid-region fires set modern records while heat near 42C threatened hard-won lines.