Hollywood actor George Clooney and his British wife Amal have fled their luxury home in Brignoles as ‌a result of the wildfires blazing in the southern ‌French region.

Clooney’s publicist shared with Reuters a letter that the actor sent to Didier Bremond, the mayor of Brignoles, expressing his concerns as many regions ‌of France ‌battle ⁠wildfires.

“Dear Didier. At this point we ​have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment and as we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise two things,” Clooney wrote.

“First, we hope you ⁠and the people of ‌our ​city are safe and second that Amal and I ​are committed to ‌making sure that whatever happens to our village, we ​are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole. We love ​Brignoles ​and our friends who live ​there.”

The movie star and human rights lawyer, along with their nine-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, obtained French citizenship in 2025.

The Clooneys bought their Brignoles home on a vineyard in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region in 2021 ​when it had an estimated value of about 9 million euros ($15 million).

Wildfires are affecting the southern part of Brignoles and threatening the village of Camps-la-Source. Photo: AAP

Firefighters have been scrambling to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented ‌evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as western Europe braces for another heatwave.

Europe, the world’s fastest warming continent, has endured record-breaking heatwaves in 2026.

Scientists say human-driven climate change is intensifying the heat and drought that allow wildfires to spread faster, burn longer and become more destructive.

“The situation we are dealing with today is the most severe we have ever recorded, the toughest ‌since the Second World ‌War,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.

“We ⁠are facing a completely unprecedented wildfire,” he told emergency workers in Bordeaux late on Monday.

Wildfires in France have now burned more ​area than at the same time in any year since 2006.

Despite progress in the firefighting effort, the situation remained difficult, said Nathalie Delattre, senator for Gironde, which covers the city of Bordeaux.

“Everything will depend on how the firefighters on the ground get on,” she told BFM TV on Tuesday.

Campsites and tourist residences at Lacanau, by the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux, were being evacuated on Tuesday, the Lacanau local administration said on its Facebook page.

Spain was bracing for its fourth heatwave of the summer from Wednesday with the risk of fire expected to reach extreme levels due to high temperatures, ⁠southerly winds and low humidity.

Firefighters were still battling fires in the region of Madrid and neighbouring provinces of ‌Avila and Toledo.

As of Tuesday, Spain had ​more than 73,000 ‌evacuees and roughly 66,000 people under confinement.

Sitting on a camp bed at a French evacuation centre and stroking her cat, consultant Sylvie Michel, 63, praised authorities for providing her and her pets with everything they need.

“In France we tend to be very critically-minded, to put it mildly. And honestly, ​hats-off to everyone involved,” she said.

Spanish evacuee Jose Miguel Encinas, 53, in La Vall d’Uixo in eastern Spain recalled scenes of “total chaos”.

“It was like in the movies where hell cracked ​the ground open, and you see the red hell.”