The French state broadcaster reported that since the start of the year, 56,000 hectares of forest had burned in France – three times the annual average this decade. There have also been forest fires in northern regions not usually hit by summer blazes, including in Brittany, where firefighting planes arrived from Sweden to help.

for the other americans, that’s about 140,000 acres. pretty substantial in a place where big wildfires basically don’t exist–it’d be like having a california wildfire out on the east coast.