If fires continue to burn as they have so far this wildfire season, Canada could be looking at the largest total scorched area yet recorded, officials said Monday.
, Canadians are being warned there may be much worse on the horizon.continue to burn as they have, by the end of the season in August, the country could be looking at more scorched forest than has ever been recorded, officials from Natural Resources Canada said Monday.
To put that into perspective, the 10-year average for this time of year is 1,624 fires and 254,429 hectares burned — about 13 times less than this year. “Over the last 20 years, we have never seen such a large area burned so early in the season,” said Yon Boulanger, a researcher for Natural Resources Canada. “This is partially because of climate change. We’re seeing trends toward increasing this burned area throughout Canada.
“We’ve had a bit more heat than we’ve had during a typical La Niña spring, but it does tend to favour very windy, dry conditions. Previously the most area burned was in 1989 and did very much the same thing that year. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if weather conditions are very similar to what we had in 1989.”
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