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
Around 35,000 people were under orders to evacuate their homes in western Canada's British Columbia on August 19, as a raging wildfire bore down on the city of Kelowna. The devastating fires in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories are just
The FWI System represents the drying of the vegetation and is the most direct link we can make between weather and wildfires. The FWI System indices have been shown to be good predictors of fire spread35 and area burned36. In this study, we develop regression models to predict area burned ...
Roughly half of Canada's wildfires are caused by lightning. The other half are attributed to humans, which can mean everything from a campfire that wasn't put out to power lines brought down by high winds. (...
Lightning and dry conditions have already caused many new wildfires to ignite in B.C. and Alberta, and things are expected to deteriorate in the coming days
Every year, multiple wildfires burn in the parks, and those that pose a risk to communities or infrastructure are quickly put out, while others in more remote areas may be allowed to burn under certain conditions for ecological reasons.
As the wildfires in Canada continue to burn, New Yorkers are told to again prepare for smoky haze across the state.
VisitThe Weather Network's wildfire hubto keep up with the latest on the active start to wildfire season across Canada. It’s been a rough stretch across much of Canada as folks back east deal withhistoric wildfiresandprolific smoke, while the Prairies have dealt with...
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...
2016); recent episodes of severe wildfires; and a catastrophic outbreak of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), which started in the early 1990s and subsequently spread to large parts of North America (NRC 2018). These outbreaks have significantly diminished lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta...