Of the 479 forest fires in Ontario in 2024, 218 of those were in the Northwest.
THUNDER BAY – A quieter forest fire season in Northwestern Ontario can be attributed to consistent and widespread spring rains, says a Ministry of Natural Resources official.
The widespread early spring rainfall kept the season from emerging into a situation where you have 20 to 40 new fires a day, said Marchand. With a lower fire hazard in the region this year, Marchand said they sent fire crews and incident management team members to Manitoba, Alberta, BC, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and the Northwest Territories to help out a busy national fire season.
“If it's not busy in Ontario and we have the capacity to help elsewhere, we do that,” he added. “So, it was a busy season in some sense.”In 2021, it was the busiest fire season on record. The following year was the quietest on record.
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