Men inspect the charred remains of a cabin destroyed by a wildfire near Fort Chipewyan, northern Alberta, Canada, Sept. 3, 2023.Victor R. Caivano/AP "A lot of people talk about fire season and the end of the fire season," she told Canadian public broadcaster CBC, referring to the perio...
Why is Canada’s wildfire season so bad this year? Canada has had an epic and especially early start to the wildfire season with more than 1400% of the normal amount of acres burned for this time of the year. More than 8.7 million acres have burned in Canada in 2023, an area larger...
The total area of land burned by wildfires from the start of the 2023 season in Canada compared to the ten-year average. natural resources canada , cc by-nc-ndWhat's causing the fires? A particularly warm and dry spring across much of Canada has set the scen...
Earlier this month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the start of the country's wildfire season as "unprecedented." The warm and dry conditions will likely lead to "higher-than-normal fire activity across most of the country throughout the 2023 season,"...
SEE ALSO:When will the Canada wildfire smoke clear? Not as soon as you'd like. Where can I watch live updates about current air quality? The local ABC news affiliate in New York City is running non-stop updates about air qualityvia its YouTube channel. This also includes a regional smok...
"With the heat and dryness across the country, we can expect that the wildfire season will start sooner and end later, and potentially be more explosive," Canada Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan said at a press conference.
According to the Associated Press and Canadian officials, the fires in Canada mark the start of what is expected to be Canada’s worst wildfire season ever due to drier ground than usual, which led the fires to accelerate very quickly. ...
Christie Tucker, a spokesperson for Alberta Wildfire, said an earlier official start to the season has allowed her agency to hire sooner than usual, and get prepared. The service is tracking overwintering fires, she said, and making sure people a...
(BC Wildfire Service/X) Early, explosive start to wildfire season The wildfire season got off to an early and quick start, with fires springing up inAlbertaandNova Scotiain May, followed byB.C.,OntarioandQuebecas summer began...
Under the ridge, smoke from northern B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will push south into southern areas of the eastern Prairies (Saskatchewan and Manitoba) at the end of the week. WATCH: These are the major reasons wildfires sta...