'For the majority of the province, in the boreal forest, conditions are looking really good for normal [or] near-normal precipitation and snow.'
"For the majority of the province, in the boreal forest, conditions are looking really good for normal near-normal precipitation and snow," Cory Davis, the director of wildfire predictive services for Alberta, told reporters on Thursday.say current conditions lead them to believe this year’s wildfire season will be easier to manage than the last two seasons and they hope the weather continues to co-operate.
The 2023 and 2024 wildfire seasons in Alberta saw many communities be evacuated at times and scorched large amounts of land. Tucker recounted how 2023 was a record-breaking year with 2.2 million hectares of land having been burned. In 2024, firefighters battled more than 1,150 wildfires that burned about 700,000 hectares.
“People were very concerned about the dryness of the fuels, the warm winter we had had ,” Tucker said.Click to share quote on Twitter: "We just didn't have that snowpack that we have now." “Wildfires can be unpredictable when you have elements like wind. … We’ve seen that in Alberta as well.
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