Smoke from wildfires in Manitoba, a Western province facing its worst fire season in 30 years, has created hazardous air ...

Canada's wildfire season typically runs from May through October. The country is home to about 9% of the world's forests. Last year's wildfire season was the most destructive in recorded history, ...

Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire ...

2023 was Canada's worst ever wildfire season when 18.5 million hectares burned and blazes raged simultaneously in the east and west of the country. WHAT IS CAUSING THE FIRES?

What’s happening in Canada could be a sign of what’s to come in the United States this year. Experts say it is difficult to tell how severe California’s wildfire season will be after good ...

From 1982 to 1993, Canada’s median wildfire size was 112 hectares. From 2013 to 2022, it was 509 hectares. This year so far, it’s about 1,900 hectares.

In 2023, Canada witnessed a record number of wildfires that also caused choking smoke in parts of the U.S. and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate across British Columbia.

Canada’s wildfire season just started March 1 but already flames charred 6.5 million acres in May alone. Xinhua/Sipa USA. Poor conditions are forecast to persist, but this incendiary situation ...

Additionally, those conditions were about 20% to 50% more intense due to climate change, according to the study, which analyzed data from Canada's Fire Weather Index.

Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to shift from suppressing fires to preventing them as fires become more difficult to combat. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Some good news. The circumstances that led to the smoky chaos of 2023 were unique. Canada didn't just break its wildfire records that year, it obliterated them.