The total acres burned so far this year in Canada is more than the total amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. since 2019, according to ABC News calculations, based on data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The acreage burned in Canada this year so f...
Maine firefighters to assist Canada as wildfires spread ; More than 500,000 acres have burned this spring, and heavy smoke is now wafting into northern Maine.From staff reports
For businesses, take this as a reminder to examine how your organization will handle fallout from wildfires, for example, reviewing your property insurance, business interruption coverage, disaster recovery plans or emergency communications procedures. The following resources fromRisk Managementcan help orga...
aOn average, wildfires burn 4.3 million acres in the U.S. annually. In recent years, the federal government has spent $1 billion a year on fire prevention. 2002 was a record year with major fires in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon.[translate] ...
Last year, wildfires burned 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres) of land, more than double than the previous record set two decades ago, turning European and American skies orange and the air grey. Over the last 10 years, the number of Canadi...
A red alert will be in effect in the northeastern corner of Minnesota on Thursday and will expand to cover the northern two-thirds of the state on Friday, including the Twin Cities area. The red alert means the level of particulate pollution from the wildfires will be high enough to be un...
M.V.K. Sivakumar of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and wildfires. "Should we worry about land being degraded? Yes," Sivakumar, who...
We got to East Glacier about 11:00 and had a long stop there since about 70 people left there. Not long after we pulled out from the station, we could see fires raging on the ridges not that far away. Got a good pictures. Really strange seeing wildfires that close. ...
As of Tuesday, more than 37.8 million total acres have been burned, an area nearly as large as the state of Georgia, according to theCanadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). There are more than 1,000 active wildfires burning in Canada, with more than 650 of them deemed "out of...
Last year, wildfires burned 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres) of land, more than double than the previous record set two decades ago, turning European and American skies orange and the air grey. Over the last 10 years, the number of Canadian claims tied t...