Fighting the Flames

1. _____ 2000, the EU's network of protected habitats
3. Unit used to measure the EU's record-breaking 2025 burnt area
5. Prolonged dry spell named in the topic question as a risk factor
7. Country where a 2026 wildfire was photographed approaching a beach near Omis
8. DG _____, the Commission department managing EU civil protection
9. Greek area hit by a 2018 wildfire that killed 104 people
10. Near real-time EU wildfire-monitoring platform, run by the JRC
13. Fund that reimbursed recovery costs after the Mati disaster (abbr.)
16. Combustible material, one corner of the fire triangle
17. The EU's own funded firefighting aircraft reserve, new planes not due until 2028
19. Term EU policy uses for an ecosystem's or community's ability to recover

2. Rural land _______, a key driver of fuel build-up
4. The chemical process requiring fuel, heat and oxygen together
6. EU candidate country also struck hard by wildfires, alongside Greece and Croatia
7. EU Earth-observation programme that confirmed the Evros fire as the EU's largest
11. A cleared strip of land used to stop a fire from spreading
12. Tourism-dependent country that led the world in wildfire detection by June 2026
14. The threat at the centre of this whole Topic Overview
15. Treaty where Article 196 sets the EU's limited civil-protection role (abbr.)
18. EU policy that pays farmers to keep grazing and thinning land (abbr.)