Posted on 06/06/2023 5:05:20 PM PDT by P.O.E.
Federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair has said images of wildfires burning across Canada are some of the most severe ever witnessed in the country and the forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says there are 415 fires currently burning. About 2,285 fires have burned 37,000 square kilometres so far this year
Here's a look at the current wildfire situation as of Tuesday afternoon:
NOVA SCOTIA
There are five active wildfires. The province has recorded 212 so far this year, about double the number in an average year. About 267 square kilometres have burned.
A fire that broke out at the end of May in suburban Halifax destroyed about 200 structures, including 151 homes. About 16,500 people were initially forced from their homes and the city says about 4,100 residents remain displaced.
A fire in Shelburne County in southwestern Nova Scotia, considered the largest in the province's history at around 250 square kilometres, is still out of control. The province says 150 structures had been lost, including an estimated 60 homes.
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Very heavy smoke/haze here in Connecticut.
It’s really bad in Colorado and Minnesota!
Fires have forced about 10,000 people from their homes, mostly in the northwestern Atibibi region and eastern Cote-Nord region.
I dislike Quebec intensely, but I must admit that they have some really cool place names up there.
Was down by Parkersburg WV today, could smell it in the car, but it’s NOTHING like what friends in southern Idaho report every fire season. They see visibility reduced to a quarter mile at times. Planes unable to land at the Hailey airport.
Still, it is unusual for here.
Total damage is increasing, and its not being caused by global warming.
Total Wildland Fires and Acres from 1990 to 2020
Year # of Fires # of Acres Burned
1990 66,481 4,621,621
1991 75,754 2,953,578
1992 87,394 2,069,929
1993 58,810 1,797,574
1994 79,107 4,073,579
1995 82,234 1,840,546
1996 96,363 6,065,998
1997 66,196 2,856,959
1998 81,043 1,329,704
1999 92,487 5,626,093
2000 92,250 7,393,493
2001 84,079 3,570,911
2002 73,457 7,184,712
2003 63,629 3,960,842
2004 65,461 *8,097,880
2005 66,753 8,689,389
2006 96,385 9,873,745
2007 85,705 9,328,045
2008 78,979 5,292,468
2009 78,792 5,921,786
2010 71,971 3,422,724
2011 74,126 8,711,367
2012 67,774 9,326,238
2013 47,579 4,319,546
2014 63,312 3,595,613
2015 68,151 10,125,149
2016 67,743 5,509,995
2017 71,499 10,026,086
2018 58,083 8,767,492
2019 50,477 4,664,364
2020 58,950 10,122,336
I love Quebec too, it's the Quebecois I can't stand. Even the real French in France aren't as insufferable toward English-speakers.
There’s haze & a smoke smell in northern Mississippi. I was just coughing a lot!
The other day it looked like the woods around here were on fire there was so much smoke in the air.
I don’t know if South Jersey has a fire bug but we have had non stop wildfires for about three weeks now.
Here in northern NH I took a picture of the blood red sun this morning. I noticed it’s harder to breathe. I smoked for 45 years and I feel it today.
I have kin down that way, I’ll have to call them to see if they’re ok.
The sun around here looked red this morning and orange all day.
Terrorism. When ya invite 4 million illegals into the country, there are bound to be a few thousand terrorists with means to start forest fires.
Back in 1957, there were Smokey the Bear service announcements on TV warning that there were so many wildfires in the US each year that if put together they would cover the entire state of Louisiana.
That is 33,522 million acres. We still got a long way to equal 1957.
Cry me a river.
Oh, WAIT: I know, let’s put out ALL the fires, disturb the natural ecology, let the fuels build up, raise the threat of devastation...all so everyone can have clear air/skies and empower the carbon sequestration/climate change nazis to further destroy the economy.
(too late)
>100 years of Smokey the Bear propaganda and most STILL haven’t learned the lesson, despite the virus, russian collusion, etc.
smh
Very smokey in Wynnewood, PA. It was effecting the Phillies Game.
Heavy haze, strong wood smoke smell, blood red sunset, central New Jersey
Middletown NY, smoke and smell of hickory and burned cotton candy.
Red sun, heavy grey sky.
Lots of rumbling that this may have been human caused. It appears from satellite video that the smoke plumes all start about the same time in one of the clips I watched.
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