Wildfires coming to Switzerland

June 27, 2025
Forest fire above Rolle, VD, a terrifying vision of the future?

What if, one unusually hot summer, after four weeks without rain, a wildfire progressed across the face of the Jura, the hills of la Côte, or the forested foothills of the Alpes Vaudoises, a spectacle above the Lake Léman. Perhaps sparked by a faulty power line, a spilled charcoal grill with cervelas sausages, an arsonist… First blowing one way with the westerlies, then dangerously confounding firefighters with a switch to a strong clear-skied northeasterly la bise wind…

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