Rain aids Belgium's largest wildfire containment as 3,000-hectare blaze nears German border

Residents of Monschau evacuated due to smoke hazard; villagers in Sourbrodt and other areas evacuated at peak of fire, with some returning as threat subsides.

In the ancient boglands of Belgium's High Fens, a fire of historic scale has spent itself against the slow mercy of rain and cooler air, leaving behind a landscape transformed and communities still catching their breath. What began as the country's worst wildfire in a century — consuming some 3,000 hectares of peatland and pine forest near the German border — now nears containment, though the final kilometers of encirclement remain contested by wind and inaccessible terrain. The crisis has rippled outward in smoke and consequence, touching cities far from the flames and raising quiet questions

Rain aids Belgium's largest wildfire containment as 3,000-hectare blaze nears German border

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