Burned areas near Bordeaux, France

This false-colour image by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, shows the the burned landscape to the west of Bordeaux, in south-western France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.

Read here for more Earth observation images showing the effects of extreme heat in 2026: Wildfires, drought and extreme heat, 2026