2025 European Forest Fire Risk - How bad can it get? An analysis of risk of damage to infrastructure from Forest Fire

Forest fires are raging across parts of Europe including Spain, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye and the Balkans, fuelled by extreme heat, wind, and drought. Fires like these have burnt through more than 409,000 hectares in the EU so far this year - almost double the average recorded over the last 19 years. How much worse can it get? According to XDI’s analysis, a lot. XDI has analysed forest fire risk to every state and province in Europe, from 1990 to 2100. Read some of the highlights in our short report.

This report provides the most comprehensive picture yet of how climate hazards threaten the critical infrastructure that powers our digital economy. As demand for data centre capacity accelerates, understanding these risks is essential for building resilience into the backbone of modern life.

This white-paper proposes a breakthrough approach to adaptation reporting: the P-FIVE framework. The P-FIVE model focuses on what matters most — the performance outcomes of adaptation measures — enabling machine-readable, scalable reporting that can help companies demonstrate resilience and allows stakeholders to accurately assess and compare physical climate risk.

The 2024 XDI APAC REIT Physical Climate Risk Report analyses 2,134 assets held by the 20 largest (by market capitalisation) REITs in Japan, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong to provide a snapshot of climate change risks to global real estate investments. It also ranks these 20 REITs - who have a combined market capitalisation value of more than US$142 billion - according to their physical climate risk.