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The Port of Quebec in Quebec City covered in wildfire smoke (25 June 2023) Quebec has been particularly hard hit during the 2023 wildfire season, with more frequent wildfires than in the past, and fewer resources and experience with which to fight them. [104] It has seen the most area burned of any province with 5.2 million ha (13 million acres ...
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 ...
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. The fires caused air quality to plummet across large parts ...
Northwest Territories also hit by latest outbreak of drought-inspired summer blazes
2023 Canadian wildfires; 0–9. 2023 Canadian drought; E. Eagle Bluff Fire; M. McDougall Creek fire This page was last edited on 12 June 2023, at 02:06 (UTC). ...
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.
A smoke column rises from wildfire near Lodgepole, Alberta, Canada on May 4. More than 13,000 people who live in the Canadian province of Alberta have been evacuated as wildfires rage across the ...
Wildfires have set millions of acres ablaze across Canada so far in 2023. The fires have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate, destroyed homes and businesses and caused firefighters to ...