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Some 230 fires are burning out-of-control and impacting provinces and territories from coast to coast. The blazes are impacting 10 provinces, two territories and national parks .
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 ]
Smoke from fires reduced air quality through the United States and Canada and reached as far as Mexico and Europe. There have been two fatalities reported related to the fires: a firefighter killed by a falling tree in Alberta, and a helicopter pilot in the Northwest Territories who crashed while assisting with wildfire management.
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 ...
Films about social issues in Canada (4 C) H. Human rights abuses in Canada (15 C, 13 P) P. Persecution of LGBTQ people in Canada (13 P) Prostitution in Canada (6 C ...
During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and pine forest in northwestern Canada, Julia Cardinal lost a riverside cabin that was many things to her: retirement project, gift from ...
Wildfires are a major concern in Canada, with an average of over 7,000 wildfires occurring each year in Canada. [16] Since 1990, these fires across Canada have consumed approximately an average of 2.5 million hectares a year. [17] Wildfires are a recurrent natural disaster in Canada, escalating due to climate change and other human-induced factors.
Canada is being seared by a record-setting wildfire season, with more than 100,000 square kilometres burned, and counting - quadruple the area burned during an average wildfire season.