How ‘fire storms’ make wildfires deadlier0

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• July 27, 2026

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the Gironde region surrounding Bordeaux, as France continues to battle wildfires fueled by unprecedented “pyrocumulonimbus,” or fire clouds. Scientists sometimes describe these clouds as a fire-generated storm because the fire itself provides the energy needed to build the cloud. The enormous amount of heat generated by