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Manitoba saw 266,000 hectares of forest burned in 2024, about 60,000 hectares more than 2023. [51] The first wildfire was detected on April 8, compared to April 30 in 2023. [51] Of the 291 fires recorded through the season, 105 were human-caused and 206 needed a full firefighting response. [51] The first significant fires occurred in May.
In Canada, wildfire season usually starts in May. [20] The 2023 fires were compared to the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire [21] [22] and the 2021 Lytton wildfire. [23] The 2023 fire season was mainly driven by anthropogenic climate change, with temperatures in Canada from May to October 2.2 °C (4 °F) higher than the 1991–2020 average. [24]
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Northwest Territories also hit by latest outbreak of drought-inspired summer blazes
June 30, 2023 at 11:22 AM. ... There have been 3,055 fires so far this year in Canada, destroying more than 30,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Switzerland.
So far, there have been 4,024 wildfires across Canada, scorching more than 23.5 million acres, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. That already exceeds the record of 18.7 ...
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Air pollution from wildfires is closely tracked because small particles in smoke that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter — about 4% of the diameter of an average human hair — are small ...