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Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’​

More than 470 Canadian fires classified as ‘out of control’ as scientists say climate change exacerbating the burning

Olivia Bowden in Toronto

With hundreds of wildfires burning out of control, Canada’s 2025 fire season is already the second-worst on record, as scientists report climate change is prolonging and exacerbating the burning, leading to more destruction, evacuations and smoke-filled skies.

More than 470 fires across the country are currently classified as “out of control”, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).

7,318,421 hectares of land in Canada have burned due to wildfires this year – close to 78% more than the five-year average of 4,114,516 hectares, according to the CIFFC’s latest data.

The 2025 fire season is only behind the explosive 2023 wildfire season, which resulted in an astounding 17,203,625 hectares burned.

“This is our new reality… the warmer it gets, the more fires we see,” said Mike Flannigan, the BC research chair for predictive services, emergency management and fire science at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

A June analysis on the 2025 fire season in Canada published by United Nations University in Shibuya, Japan, concluded that the fires are a “stark manifestation” of climate change and that warm, dry weather in the spring resulted in temperatures 2.5C above average.

The warmer temperatures extend the fire season and increase the frequency of lightning that sparks fires, said Flannigan. A hotter climate also causes the atmosphere to suck moisture out of fuel, dead vegetation and the forest floor – creating ideal conditions for fires to start, he explained.


“It means more of the material is dried out, is available to burn when the fire does come, it leads to bigger flames, higher intensity, which gets to be difficult to impossible to extinguish,” he said.

So far, the worst of the fires have been concentrated in the prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which together account for about 60% of the hectares burned so far this year in Canada.

Tens of thousands of people in communities across the country have been evacuated due to the wildfires. In Saskatchewan, the Canadian Red Cross reported it had assisted more than 17,000 people in the province from over 6,700 households to evacuate.

Thirteen communities in north-west Saskatchewan are under an evacuation order, several of which are First Nations, according to the province. One of the most affected areas of this year’s wildfire season in the province is Denare Beach, a north-eastern village that was mostly destroyed in June due to a blaze.

The season has also now hit the east coast of Canada, as wildfires are currently raging across Newfoundland and Labrador and several towns are under evacuation orders.


John Abatzoglou, a professor of complex systems management at the University of California, Merced, co-authored the June report from United Nations University.

Abatzoglou said this year’s fire season is the third year in a row Canada has seen fire activity that is well above average. The fires are also causing widespread smoke to cascade from the country into the United States as well, prompting severe air quality warnings in several states this month, is also an indication of how the fires are hurting populations beyond evacuations.

It’s an international element of the fires that officials are having to contend with on a wider scale, Abatzoglou said.

“This is a really key point that’s different from other natural hazards and its ability to impact everything from quality of life to … human health and even mortality,” he said.

Governments and public health officials will have to address how to change public behaviour and public policy to contend with “smoke days”, where you have to stay inside, he said.

“I know communities that may not have great infiltration systems … so more efforts there to provide resources to communities so that they can be safe indoors during acute smoke periods.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/canada-wildfire-season
 
Worldwide the number of wildfires and area burned by wildfires has been decreasing over the last 40 years.



This destroys the idea that this because of global warming.

Lighting is the cause of 50% of wildfires, and also cause the majority of big wildfires accounting for 80% land burned from wildfires.

The super dry conditions on the ground we see are due to cuts to and or complete elimination of forest management practices. We see this not just in Canada, but Australia and California where severe forest mismanagement of forests have led to catastrophic fire seasons every year, while smart/less politically captured like countries like Finland have dramatically reduced fire risk with robust management operations.


In Canada last year the town of Jasper burned nearly to the ground directly because of forest mismanagement. The town is also a national park so the forest management in this case was federal responsibility. Despite warnings for nearly a decade that the whole town would eventually go up in flames due to the surrounding conditions the federal government not only did nothing, but prevented provincial authority from taking it upon themselves.



When the town was burning to the ground, the federal government was turning away provincial crews who came to help fight the blaze.



If this doesn't make it clear that there is an agenda to make these fires worse than they need to be, than the fact the Canadian government routinely refuses help from other countries to fight these fires should wake up anyone with a functioning brain.


Here the New Brunswick premier, who is one of the if not the most woke nutjob in office in the entire country admits these new bans from entering the woods are not about preventing forest fires but to control our behaviour.


The covid lockdowns were very unscientific and anyone with any basic reasoning could see right through it, but the Canadian population bought it hook line and sinker. This time with climate hysteria ingrained into the minds of Canadians for the last 30 years, they won't even have to try to justify climate lockdowns and more extinguishing of our rights this time.
 
And that's why even hiking is banned until conditions improve. As opposed to
'Member that time dummies in gov banned walking sticks in the woods because the metal ends could cause a spark on rock and ignite a fire? 'Member that time large scale construction was allowed to continue and fires were started by large jack hammering operations on bedrock? Oh wait, that was today. LOL. Virtuous east coasters not thinking things through properly. Never seen that before....rofl

LOL, dummies everywhere out here Andy, and you're the first to carry water for them. There are much smarter ways to be smart. Do better.
 
'Member that time dummies in gov banned walking sticks in the woods because the metal ends could cause a spark on rock and ignite a fire? 'Member that time large scale construction was allowed to continue and fires were started by large jack hammering operations on bedrock? Oh wait, that was today. LOL. Virtuous east coasters not thinking things through properly. Never seen that before....rofl

LOL, dummies everywhere out here Andy, and you're the first to carry water for them. There are much smarter ways to be smart. Do better.
Member that fire that's burning right now just outside of Halifax?


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Member that fire that's burning right now just outside of Halifax?


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Incidentally, I have a great view of this one. It's 4km from my house, but there are no woods on this side and a lake between us.

Like, I'm swimming in the lake and the water bombers are collecting right in front of us a hundred feet away. Got some great money shots and videos.

The whole neighborhood is down here watching lol.
 
Incidentally, I have a great view of this one. It's 4km from my house, but there are no woods on this side and a lake between us.

Like, I'm swimming in the lake and the water bombers are collecting right in front of us a hundred feet away. Got some great money shots and videos.

The whole neighborhood is down here watching lol.
They interviewed someone on CBC Radio saying pretty much the same thing. I imagine it would be a sight to behold. Unless the wind is at your back there though I wouldn't be joining you even if I could. The smoke from all the fires lately getting blown over here by prevailing winds has been fucking me up good.
 
Incidentally, I have a great view of this one. It's 4km from my house, but there are no woods on this side and a lake between us.

Like, I'm swimming in the lake and the water bombers are collecting right in front of us a hundred feet away. Got some great money shots and videos.

The whole neighborhood is down here watching lol.

You’re gonna fuck around and get scooped up by a water bomber and end up in a fire
 
You’re gonna fuck around and get scooped up by a water bomber and end up in a fire
Nobody is swimming way the fuck out in the middle where the bombers are scooping. To scoop me up he would have to crash into 2 docks


In any case the water bombers were done awhile ago
 
They interviewed someone on CBC Radio saying pretty much the same thing. I imagine it would be a sight to behold. Unless the wind is at your back there though I wouldn't be joining you even if I could. The smoke from all the fires lately getting blown over here by prevailing winds has been fucking me up good.
The smoke is heading opposite direction from me.
 
Nobody is swimming way the fuck out in the middle where the bombers are scooping. To scoop me up he would have to crash into 2 docks


In any case the water bombers were done awhile ago

Then swim out further, pussy.

I wanna read about you getting scooped up
 
Nova Scotia is the armpit of Canada. Always has been, always will be. 30% of people here are do-nothing slugs working government jobs. The rest are sub-60 IQ dummies who will give the government a handjob when they enact overreaching, authoritative measures. Govern us more Daddy! Also when can I go on EI?

I'm getting really close to leaving. My wife is from here. I'm from Ontario. We met in Edmonton and she wanted to come back here....

Life is generally good for us, but the government, taxation and the general morons and pussies that live here are getting to be too much. Can't go for a walk in the bush.

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Fuckin can-ass province.
Ask your wife if you can have your balls back. Pretty sure they are in her purse. Say please and she just might let you move back to Ontario. Stop embarrassing yourself. On second thought, don't. You getting slapped around by your lady is hilarious.
 
Ask your wife if you can have your balls back. Pretty sure they are in her purse. Say please and she just might let you move back to Ontario. Stop embarrassing yourself. On second thought, don't. You getting slapped around by your lady is hilarious.
How are you inferring my wife has my nuts in her purse by my post? LOL, what are you, retarded?
 
So here in Nova Scotia, due to the hot and dry summer we’re having the government banned all outdoor activities in the woods due to the fear of forest fires. This extends to crown (public) and private land.

So as of right now, I can’t even go out on my rural property without facing risk of $25,000 fine. Why dont we ban driving to prevent auto accidents too while we’re at it?

Insane. We already had a strict burn ban. Say what you want but I don’t think the government should ever have the authority to tell me I’m not allowed to go for a walk on my own private land. I’m blatantly disobeying it anyways but curious to see what will become of this. I’d love to get fined over it too because I think you could beat it in court.

I really don’t like how the government gets more expensive, powerful and annoying as time goes on. I’m sure the greater good people will shoot me down but no hiking on my own land? Eat shit.

From your link FFS

"Landowners are being encouraged to voluntarily follow the same restrictions on their private land to minimize the risk of wildfires."


Read more than the headline and you won't (or are at least less likely) to make a fool of yourself.
 
No disrespect to the mods intended but my page one assertion that was deleted is substantiated by one of your favorite news sources:.

 

I'm a Canadian, and I think that Eastern Canada premiers are stupid with their hiking and fishing bans.
Does this front page better represent the genuine sentiment of the average Canadian?
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