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Officials from Natural Resources Canada have stated that wildfires in Canada are now likely to be a year-round rather than seasonal phenomenon. [79] Some fires in Northeast British Columbia have been continuously burning since 2022 and are likely to burn into 2025.
Forest management is also a factor in the wildfires. Because Canada's forest management has focused on fire suppression, dry vegetation has accumulated on the forest floor. [39] Canada has generally stopped performing controlled burns, which help reduce the risk of larger and more dangerous fires.
Air quality plummeted across large parts of the United States and Canada again at the end of June as hundreds of wildfires continue to rage out of control north of the border.. There are 499 fires ...
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 ...
A Parks Canada official explained the wildfire was the largest the park had recorded in the last 100 years and could continue to burn for months. [15] An update from Parks Canada on August 1 indicated the wildfire had grown substantially and was now 39,000 hectares (96,000 acres), with more growth expected. [16]
Forest fires continued to burn across Canada on Thursday as the country endured its worst-ever start to wildfire season, forcing thousands of people from their homes and sending a smoky haze ...
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia. The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [ 2 ] and possibly exacerbated by human ...
2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 hectares which is the second highest in recent history (after the 2007 fires). [12] 2007 Greek forest fires were