Fire in Canada: almost 6 million hectares that went to smoking, the equivalent of Croatia

With almost six million hectares burned at the moment, the Croatia area, the forest fire season in Canada is one of the worst registered in the country, according to an update of the authorities on Friday.

Due to the drought and temperatures higher than normal, the country of 40 million inhabitants has experienced an early and extreme season with several active megafos. And the latter devours the earth at a rare pace for 40 years.

“A more normal fire scheme”

“This is one of the highest accumulated areas for this period of the year behind the 2023 fire season,” said Michael Norton, a spokesman for Natural Recurged Canada.

But unlike the extraordinary summer of 2023, where the activity of fire “has not stabilized” and where almost 18 million hectares burned in total, “we observed this year a more normal fire scheme,” he continued.

The intensity of the fires slowed in June, but the country between “in what are normally the most active months of the season”, with conditions propitious to fires in several regions, he warned. More than 560 fires are currently active in the country. Ottawa requested international help and 533 firefighters from the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Costa Rica and Mexico are on the site.

39,000 natives were evacuated

The intensity of the braziers forced the province of Manitoba (center) to declare the state of emergency for the second time in a few months on July 10 and the authorities indicated that the number of hectares burned this year is ten times greater than the average.

From this spring, 39,000 natives have been evacuated, Aboriginal Services Minister said Friday, adding that the first nations are “disproportionately affected” by fires and are “108 times more likely to be evacuated in emergencies.”

Canada, which heats the rest of the planet twice as quickly, faces more and more violent weather events. Linked to the climate change of human origin, the increase in temperatures leads to less snow, shorter and smooth winters, and previous summer conditions that promote fires, according to experts.