The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) has published year-to-date (YTD) figures for the current wildfire season, revealing that the running total of wildland fires has now breached the 5,000 mark.
Here are the numbers, according to CIFFC’s latest national fire situation report:
|
Agency |
2023 fires |
2024 fires (YTD) |
2023 area burned in hectares |
2024 area burned in hectares (YTD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
British Columbia |
1,981 |
1,561 |
1,810,238 |
1,022,607 |
|
Yukon |
203 |
143 |
220,067 |
162,346 |
|
Alberta |
908 |
1,107 |
2,020,648 |
706,716 |
|
Northwest Territories |
277 |
167 |
2,968,848 |
1,581,215 |
|
Saskatchewan |
385 |
504 |
251,969 |
784,678 |
|
Manitoba |
280 |
275 |
101,272 |
250,179 |
|
Ontario |
675 |
348 |
346,879 |
70,469 |
|
Quebec |
674 |
443 |
4,233,931 |
247,761 |
|
Newfoundland and Labrador |
97 |
71 |
21,881 |
72,420 |
|
New Brunswick |
197 |
231 |
892 |
187 |
|
Nova Scotia |
215 |
71 |
24,820 |
47 |
|
Prince Edward Island |
7 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
|
Parks Canada |
100 |
87 |
771,821 |
90,382 |
|
Total |
5,999 |
5,008 |
12,773,275 |
4,989,008 |
CIFFC said the total amounts include fires from the 2023 fire season that are still listed as active.
The national wildfire agency went on to report: “Significant mobilization of resources through CIFFC is required to assist operations in the active agencies. Agency priorities need to be considered as a necessary measure to address the demand for shared resources among multiple active agencies. There is a moderate to high probability that drawing down resources from non-active agencies may pose a risk should existing conditions change.”
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