How Canada's Record Wildfires Got So Bad

How Canada's Record Wildfires Got So Bad, So Fast

With more than a month of peak fire season left to go, 2023 has already eclipsed Canada's previous annual record from 1989, when over 18 million ...

Why Canada is riddled with wildfires that burn year-round - BBC

The plumes of smoke north of Fort Nelson became a conflagration of 700 sq km (270 sq miles). The town is now caught in a horseshoe of fire: to ...

Canada's 2023 wildfires doubled the previous burning record

Lightning ignited 59% of the wildfires, but these accounted for an overwhelming 93% of the total area burned, as fires sparked in remote areas ...

Why does Canada have so many wildfires? - CBS News

Toronto — Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Western Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British ...

Why Canada's Wildfires Are So Bad This Year

Hundreds of wildfires have spread across western Canada so far this year, burning more than 27 million acres — surpassing a previous record ...

Why so many more wildfires in western Canada than 20 years ago?

Fire suppression and climate change. Smokey the Bear said "All fires bad" and so we put them out. There is a fire regime for different areas.

Canada's wildfire season ranks among worst but less severe than ...

With summer drawing to a close in Canada, the 2024 wildfire season is shaping up as one of the most destructive on record, largely due to ...

This is Canada's worst wildfire season on record, researchers say

This year's fires have tripled the record high for carbon emissions from previous Canadian wildfire seasons and have burned the highest-ever ...

Five charts to help understand Canada's record-breaking wildfire ...

The total area burned has now exceeded 18 million hectares, which is two and a half times the previous record set in 1995 and more than six times the average ...

Mapping the scale of Canada's record wildfires | Climate Crisis News

Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season on record with tens of thousands of people being driven out of their homes and the federal ...

Canada's wildfires, smoke became a problem for US - USA Today

The last time was the Horse River Fire in May and June of 2016, the worst wildfire in Canadian history. That blaze caused $9.9 billion Canadian ...

Why is Canada having so many wildfires this season? - BBC

This year's wildfire season comes as the country reels from its worst fire season on record in 2023, when roughly 18.5m hectares of land had ...

This is Canada's worst fire season in modern history — but it's not new

Canada is having its worst fire season in modern history. The fires have burnt more than 20 million acres, casting hazardous smoke over ...

World on Fire: 2023 is Canada's worst wildfire season on record - CBC

Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada, according to a study by World Weather ...

Canada's hellish wildfire season accelerates - Axios

"The sudden increase in the fire emissions for Canada between 23-25 September was very surprising for the time of year, and following 21 weeks ...

'In the blink of an eye, we lost so much.' Worst wildfire season ... - PBS

The worst wildfire season in Canadian history is displacing Indigenous communities from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, blanketing them in thick smoke, ...

Warming Set the Stage for Canada's Record Fires, Study Finds

When researchers with the group examined Australia's deadly wildfires of late 2019 and early 2020, they calculated that the exceptional warmth ...

Canada burning: The worst fires season on record | AirMed&Rescue

Such a large, rural and natural country combined with climate change results in more wildfires that can crop up in inaccessible areas and manage ...

Posts Mislead About Record-Setting Canadian Wildfires Fueled by ...

But the recent conviction of a Quebec man led to false claims on social media that the majority of the fires were the result of arson. Full ...

As wildfires gobble more Canadian acreage, crews struggle to even ...

Canada is already on pace to have its worst wildfire season in recorded history and the season is little more than half over.