So far in 2023, over 100,000 square kilometers of land in Canada has burned with the fire season barely half over – that’s more land than any other fire season since 1990, the earliest for which data is available.
The data was compiled in a graphic with text by Reuters.
This season’s fire have been some of the fastest-moving in the Canada’s history.
The majority of land burned is in Quebec, where blazes from last year’s fire season continue to burn.
The province has lost 43,500 square kilometers.
Hot weather caused a rapid spring snowmelt across Saskatchewan and much of Canada’s prairies, leaving conditions ripe for wildfires to spread quickly, the wire service also reports.