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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 ...
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]
More than 100 blazes are burning across Canada Monday, with several major wildfires prompting evacuations for hundreds of residents and threatening to swallow up communities.
Thick plumes of smoke from dozens of wildfires raging in Ontario, Canada, are billowing across the US border, compromising the air quality for millions of residents in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.
Ontario: May 1903: $500,000: 300+ [2] Fire in Saint-Hyacinthe: Saint-Hyacinthe Quebec: May 1903: $500,000: 400+ [2] Great Toronto Fire: Toronto Ontario: Apr 1904: $13 million [2] Fire in Trois-Rivières: Trois-Rivières Quebec: Jun 1908: $2 million [2] Fire in Fernie: Fernie British Columbia: Aug 1908: $4 million: Most of the town was destroyed ...
Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada in May 2024 and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S. again. At the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from Mexico ...
The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires.The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024.
A recent outbreak of wildfires in Canada is sending a plume of unhealthy smoke into the US yet again, but this time, the fires are coming from a different part of the country. Here’s what that ...