Wildfire Season

• Officials in New Brunswick brace for another ‘horrific’ wildfire season

  A stark warning was provided by officials within the department of Natural Resources and Energy Development in New Brunswick as wildfire season is underway.

  Weather

  Apr 16
  
• Wildfires 2024: Canada ‘preparing for the worst’ after record season last year

  The federal government says it is taking measures to prepare for this year's wildfire season, noting that wildfire activity is already at above-normal levels.

  Canada

  Apr 10
  
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• Night no longer offering firefighting reprieve, Canadian study shows

  The availability of bone-dry fuels is the key mechanism promoting extreme fire behaviour and growth at night, a new Canadian study found.

  Canada

  Mar 13
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• Canada’s upcoming wildfire season could be worse than last year, Sajjan warns

  Wildfires were a key topic during two days of meetings in Ottawa between provincial, territorial and federal emergency response ministers that wrapped up Wednesday.

  Canada

  Feb 21
• B.C. weather: Warm, dry winter could spell trouble when wildfire season arrives

  “If we have a low snowpack continue into those months, and then warm temperatures for an early snow melt, then we may be out of snow quite early.”

  Canada

  Dec 29, 2023
• Alberta wildfire season ’10 times more severe’ than recent averages, province says

  Oct. 31 marked the official end of Alberta's 2023 wildfire season, which saw a record 2.2 million hectares burned. That's 10 times more than the five-year average.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2023
• Wind, humidity cause South Okanagan wildfires to flare up

  Two wildfires are still burning in the South Okanagan and crews were quite busy over the weekend as both fires were showing an increase in fire activity.

  Fire

  Sep 17, 2023
• B.C.’s wildfire crisis was forecast, but it arrived decades sooner than expected

  The warming and drying trend that began in the mid-2000s coincided with pine beetle outbreaks that left swaths of B.C.'s forests dead, dry, brittle and ripe for wildfire.

  Fire

  Sep 11, 2023
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• Wildfires in Canada could burn into late fall, winter

  Forecast maps show Manitoba is likely to see intense fire activity in September, with Saskatchewan, Eastern Alberta and Western Ontario also likely to see “above-average” activity.

  Environment

  Sep 7, 2023
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• Conspiracy theories swirl around wildfires amid record season in Canada

  Canada's current wildfire season is devastating evidence of the effects of climate change, scientists say, but some conspiracy theorists are not convinced.

  Canada

  Aug 25, 2023