A huge fire on Wednesday at Belgium’s Tomorrowland music festival site has “severely damaged” the main stage two days before the event was due to start, organizers said.
No one was injured in the incident.
Aerial view of the fire-damaged Tomorrowland music festival main stage on July 17. Belga/AFP via Getty Images
Smoke rises from the Tomorrowland blaze on July 16. Morgan Hermans via REUTERSImages shared on local news sites and social media showed flames and plumes of black smoke engulfing the stage and spreading to nearby woodland.
The annual festival in the town of Boom, north of Brussels, which is scheduled to start Friday, draws tens of thousands of visitors from around Europe.
Smoke caused by a fire billows above the site of the Tomorrowland electronic music festival in Boom, northern Belgium on July 16, 2025. Belga/AFP via Getty Images
People wait in line to enter the DreamVille camping site of the Tomorrowland festival a day after its main stage was totally destroyed by fire on July 17, 2025. Belga/AFP via Getty Images‘’Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, our beloved Mainstage has been severely damaged,’’ the organizers posted on the event’s website. ‘’We can confirm that no one was injured during the incident.’’
The statement said the focus is now on “finding solutions” for the festival weekend. The cause of the fire was not given.
