Canada fires today

The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) creates daily fire weather and fire behavior maps year-round and hot spot maps throughout the forest fire season, generally between May and September. As the wildfire season slows in the western United States and Canada we have had a chance to look back on some of the more significant blazes. One of the largest in recent years, if not THE largest, was in 20in Alberta, Canada , the 58552-hectare ( million-acre) Horse River Fire that generally became known as the . It is now an estimated 14hectares and still zero per cent contained. The wildfire was discovered on July in the Paysayten Wilderness of Washington state, approximately kilometres south of the Canada U. Since the first week of the fire , the BC Wildfire Service has been in regular . The links below list all current wildfires (over hectares) in British Columbia, including wildfires of note.

Environment Canada issued warnings of high air pollution levels and an incoming heat wave expected to last over the weekend. Thousands of people have been . Information about the current forest fire danger, forest fire activity and fire restrictions across the province. British Columbia chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek said in a conference call the Australians were due to arrive on Wednesday. There were 1fires across the.

The Canadian province of British Columbia has evacuated thousands of people as dry weather continues to fuel blazes, with 1new fires starting in the last. Given the current wildfire situation and the expected increase in wildfire activity, the province is taking this extraordinary measure of declaring a . We have a very significant fire season unfolding,” says Daniel Perrakis, a fire research scientist at the Canadian Forest Service. Now when a fire starts, it spreads through a new mix of plants, and the dry wood of the beetle- killed trees adds to fire intensity and smoke production.