Canada wildfire: all 20,000 Yellowknife residents evacuating

tryagain, 10 months ago

My home feed is extra on the nose today.

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can, 10 months ago

Canada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with nearly 1,100 active fires burning across the country as of Wednesday.

Experts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason.

Scientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.

This is fine

rab, 10 months ago

Area burned is a more alarming stat than amount of fires, too

The northern Alberta fire burned an area larger than some countries

echodot, 10 months ago

How many fires does Canada have during a good wildfire season?

Stochastic, 10 months ago

8,000 is the average annual total count, usually spread across ~3months (July, Aug, Sept). The 1,100 number quoted is currently burning today. As of August 17 the count (active and extinguished) so far this year was up to 5,765.

The size of fires is really the staggering figure with 13.75 million hectares (137,500 km² roughly the size of Arkansas or Greece) burned so far, while the average annual total burned area is usually only 2.1 million hectares.