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Climate change-driven heat fuels dangerous wildfires in Canada 

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This graph from CBC's Wildfire Tracker represents how much forest has burned so far this year in Canada. The cumulative wildfire area burned this season in Canada has topped out at about 7,757,052 hectares, the second highest on record.

From Climate Central - Wildfires in Canada have been forcing mass evacuations in Manitoba and prompted urgent calls for assistance from First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan.  Parts of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have seen unusually intense heat, drought, and atmospheric conditions which all collided during the last week of May 2025.

Since then, the fire season of 2025 has gone down as the second-worst wildfire season in Canadian history, surpassed only by the blazes of 2023. The Brock Press reports that the Prairies were hit particularly hard, with over 33,000 people displaced across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, including 17,000 evacuees from Manitoba alone. Together, Saskatchewan and Manitoba accounted for more than half of the land burned nationally. Confirmed fatalities include two deaths from the same small community in Manitoba — though the full toll of injuries and deaths is still being compiled.

 

Attribution science confirms that climate change is fueling the heat, making high temperatures in parts of central Canada at least five times more likely than they would be in a world without climate change.

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