A lot of the time lightning can cause the wildfires in areas where people don’t live so no one can get there quickly to manage the fire before it becomes unmanageable.
Fires in general are a natural process that is beneficial and supposed to happen in different parts of the world. They would happen if we weren’t here and they have an important function and purpose in nature that in and of itself is not inherently bad. However humans of course have accelerated the entire effect. Whether it’s global warming, dumb actions from people on a residential level/citizen level, whether is pollution. You name it. Bad wildlife practices or whatever.
But, this would 100% happen naturally and is beneficial in it’s own way. How often, how much, and how intense those fires are can be affected by a variety of things which could be considered unnatural
It is a huge country with a small population all clustered to the south. The north is largely vast wilderness, most of it forested with sparse human populations, which might so it’s harder to spot small fires before they become big ones.
On top of that, global temperatures have been rising and this area has become drier, increasing both the likelihood and severity of wildfires. Human activity increases fire risk in other ways too: they are the largest direct cause in many areas, and certain forestry techniques (monocultures, lack of controlled burns) make the whole thing riskier.
It all adds up to lots of fires, rising largely in step with global temperatures.
I have lived in Canada my entire life and don’t remember ever experiencing wildfires to the scale and severity that we have this year. Obviously, Canada is a pretty big place, and your mileage may vary depending where you are in the country, but it’s been a pretty unprecedented shit show over here.
It’s full of fire-driven ecosystems. Recent human-related changes have made fires more likely & harder to contain when it’s necessary to do so. But, really, the fact is, most of Canada is supposed to be on fire semi-regularly.
Because throughout history Canadas forests were managed by indigenous peoples who burned parts of the forests for various reasons, and that served very well for forest management.
We shoved all these peoples into reserves and revoked their privileges of managing the forests, they all grew unchecked, and now we have millions of acres of forests that need to burn, and it is just catching up with us now.
If you look at a map of where Canada is on fire, you’ll notice that it is not near the population centers that are clustered around the southern border.
There are 9.98 million square kilometers of wilderness in Canada.
A space that is nearly impossible for the human mind to comprehend.
Statistically, it then makes sense that there is always a fire somewhere. Especially considering the effects of climate change which drastically increases both the probability and the severity of wildfires.
I’m from Alaska. We have many wildfires every year. Most, especially in the Interior are caused by lightning strikes. They are then allowed to burn unless they threaten developed areas. I suspect many of the fires in Canada are started the same way.
Canada has a tree planting industrial complex. Taking in government money to pay kids to plant trees in a manner that is highly tuned to burn. Now they want to replant on this burnt land in the same manner…
This comes after the industry spent decades calling old forests diseased and needing to be clear cut.
Edit: Had to break this up cause reddit didn’t like how long my post was. Please see further comments below to read my full comment: I’m a wildland firefighter in Canada. Wildfire is a natural part of many forest ecosystems, particularly the boreal forest that makes up most of Northern Canada, and where the majority of our large wildfires are. There are trees such as white spruce that are actually adapted to wildfire and won’t release their seeds to reproduce until a fire comes through. There is a regular timescale on which different ecosystems will naturally burn and it varies but can be as little as every year or two.
Basically a certain amount of dead biomass will accumulate, and after a stretch of hot dry weather a lightning strike will ignite a fire. These fires will spread a certain distance based on a combination of available fuel (in this case trees, grasses, shrubs, etc), weather and topography.
Weather is the biggest one. Our peak burn always comes at the hottest time of day and we always look for ‘crossover’, when the ambient dry bulb temperature surpasses the relative humidity of the air. Crossover leads to extreme fire behaviour because there is less moisture in the air to inhibit the fire’s spread and more ambient heat available. Even in a tinder dry forest, fire behaviour slows dramatically in the evenings as temperature drops and relative humidity increases. Wind is also a big driver of extreme fire behaviour. High winds give more oxygen to the fire, push it forward and can alsp carry firebrands through the air to ignite new areas outside of the fire’s perimeter. We call this spotting and depending on the size of the fire, the size of the trees and the strength of the wind a fire can spot several kilometres. In this case natural barriers like rivers, lakes or swamplands won’t limit a fire’s spread.
Topography is also important because fires will tend to move faster upslope due to preheating of fuels as hot air rises. Chutes and canyons can also experience extremely strong local winds that can drive fires.
Fuels are the last one. Fuel refers to anything in the forest that will burn. For a fire to get started you need dry enough fine fuels. Think of your tinder when starting a campfire. In the forest these are things like grasses, spruce needles or twigs less than the size of a pinky finger. These dry out FAST in the right conditions and will readily ignite with a lightning strike. Fore a fire to really dig in and have staying power though your larger fuels also need to be dry enough to be receptive. Dead trees will dry out much more quickly than live ones and provide more fuel. Fire is nature’s way of clearing out some of these dead plants to make way for new growth.
These processes have been ongoing for as long as the boreal forest has existed and are a natural part of the environment. The fire behaviour we’re seeing these days though bears little relation to those natural processes of succession in the history of the boreal. So why are fires so much larger and more extreme now? Topography largely hasn’t changed, but fuels and weather absolutely have.
Canada is very thinly populated, is very very big and has lots and lots of forests. The odds of there being not a single fire, during fire season, across the entire country, are pretty much zero.
For comparison, California literally has 1000s of significant wild fires a year
Canada has an incredible amount of forest and people that are mainly all clustered into a line. This means that when a fire breaks out in some of the largest patches of forest in the world and it’s not near anyone, it sometimes makes sense not to do anything and let natural processes take hold. It’s also worth mentioning that it’s gotten unusually hot recently for some reason and fires are more likely to break out
This news opinion piece, written by Jesse Zeman, the Executive Director of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, explains the situation quite well for British Columbia. (I can’t speak about other Canadian provinces because I don’t live there and am not sufficiently aware of their forest management practices.)
Jesse Zeman: Archaic management has turned our forests into an overstuffed matchbox
Opinion: Until we overhaul forest management, raging wildfires and smoky skies will become the norm. How do you like your smoke?
After record temperatures seared much of the province, this year’s fire season got off to an early start, and that’s a problem. Our forests are a ticking timebomb.
While many people will point to climate change to explain recent historically destructive fire seasons, B.C.’s history of fire suppression and archaic forest management has turned our forests into an overstuffed matchbox that grows more dangerous with each passing year.
We have already witnessed tragic losses experienced by the Nlaka’pamux First Nation and the village of Lytton. It will only get worse. Decades of fire suppression have resulted in fuel loading and forest ingrowth, crowding out biodiversity and putting people at risk. By putting out every fire on the landscape, we are creating forests that are bristling with fuel just waiting for a spark.
Much of B.C. is part of an ecosystem where fire naturally occurs every five to 200 years. In the Central Interior, many areas historically burn every five to 30 years. Under the right circumstances, fire is good. Fire is part of a natural process that rejuvenates grasslands and promotes biodiversity.
In much of the Interior, fire is an integral component of functioning and productive habitat for grizzly bears, moose, elk, mule deer, and sheep, creating food for wildlife by regenerating the soil and letting in sunlight, which creates ideal conditions for new plants and berries to grow. Many of these species are currently in decline, with some at record lows, due in part to fire suppression. On Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and in the Fraser Valley, the Garry Oak ecosystem is endangered due largely to fire suppression.
Broadleaf trees are nature’s fuel break, slowing and reducing the intensity of fires; they also support biodiversity and provide our moose with food. Unfortunately, B.C.’s outdated forest policies treat broadleaf trees, such as aspen, like weeds in order to promote the growth of merchantable timber. In parts of B.C., we actually spray broadleaf trees with the herbicide glyphosate to kill them off on a massive scale. The combination of climate change, archaic forest policies and 100-plus years of fire suppression have led to fires that burn hotter and are far less controllable, destroying trees, soil, private property, and putting people’s lives and livelihoods at risk.
What we do after a fire is vital. A post-fire landscape left untouched creates a natural fire break. As new plants and trees grow in, the burned trees that we leave standing are critical for moisture retention and temperature regulation in the soil. In as little as a year, many burned areas sound like a symphony, teeming with life from bugs to birds to bears. But our archaic forest policies often do not allow this to happen. Instead, we too often go in and log areas burned by fire as quickly as possible, because burned trees are harder to cut at the mill after a couple of years.
Logging after wildfire often leaves behind a barren landscape, with stunted native plants due to a lack of temperature regulation and moisture retention in the soil. Roads for logging invite invasive weeds. The lack of vegetation can exacerbate erosion, flooding and sedimentation in our watersheds.
B.C. has been so focused on cutting down and selling trees, it has failed to account for the costs of fire suppression, loss of biodiversity, food security and tourism. Forestry could play a critical role in mitigating the effects of wildfire by reducing fuel loads and thinning forests. But that will require a completely new way of thinking. Until we overhaul forest management, raging wildfires and smoky skies will become the norm. We need to forge a new relationship with our forests, watersheds and wildlife, focusing on sustainability and resiliency. Otherwise, with climate change, these problems only get worse.
We can take one of two approaches: Keep putting fires out and treating native tree species, such as aspen, like weeds until the fuel loading is so bad that the ensuing wildfires are virtually uncontrollable. Or we can invest in our landscapes, have controlled burns in the spring and fall and let some fires burn to create a natural diverse landscape that mitigates wildfires, supports people and wildlife.
A century of fire suppression has left lots of dead wood on the ground and on the trees. Most of these trees are also conifers, so naturally flammable. If you let fires burn naturally, like they have before human intervention, then these fires tend to stay relatively small and clean up the dead wood, without really harming the mature trees. Occasionally, the interval between fires becomes too long, so when a fire inevitably does occur, more fuel gets burnt, and therefore bigger fires. These have been documented in May of 1780, which darkened the skies over New England. The New Brunswick fire of October 1825 was the largest in Canadian history, which burned about 6,000 square miles, roughly equal to one-fifth of New Brunswick’s territory. Such fires are relatively common in conifer forests around the world, and are an important part of the natural ecosystem.
It just seems like it bc we don’t have a lot of drama to fill the newspapers so we report every single wildfire. It’s just filler. It’s actually kinda nice that that happens in comparison.
Cause it’s full of dumbasses, very few of them that aren’t completely goofy. Kinda like people from Minnesota. You can just tell right off that they aren’t firing on all 8
Much of the forests in Canada are evolved to burn semi regularly.
A patch of boreal forest usually burns every 20-30 years. It clears out the underbrush and dead trees, and helps spread seeds.
However because of climate change making everything warmer and drier, and invasive species that kill trees (whose ranges have expanded because of climate change) the wildfires are becoming much more frequent than they should be.
Under normal conditions there will always be some fires every year but unless they approach populated areas they can be left alone. In some cases we’ll do intentional burns if a patch of forest hasn’t burned in a long time since it will become unhealthy without fire.
But we are not in normal conditions anymore.
The Boreal forest needs to go through natural burn cycles in order to get rid of brush and add more nutrients to the soil and that just happens naturally as a result of the nature of the force type and the altitudes.
And the Lord deciduous forests you have a lot of insect activity that will break down the leaves and various other things into soil a lot faster but in the Boreal North you have a lot more conifers and conifers in particular contain substances that resist decomposition.
Interestingly enough I see earth goes through its natural or being cooling cycles you’ll actually see deciduous trees slowly make the way more North through another cycle which always see when it’s dispersed seeds germinating before the conifers can, and then what’s the conifers established and fall you will see nut-based trees come in as a climax species. But that only happens in The More Southern areas where you have sufficient topsoil and temperatures.
That’s kind of the summary of why it’s happening, the forest fires get started by lightning as a natural phenomenon, and with the introduction of more invasive species which tend to kill more trees we tend to see a temporary increase of more or longer Burns.
Some people do start them as well, because Canadians like to party. Bonfires in the woods are not unheard of in Canada.
Everyone blames climate change (or lightning), but that is not always the case. Guaranteed it is from bush fires or campers, or the most obvious culprit? The extreme amount of homeless people that live in the woods.
It’s not. Only in recent years. Of note is that the number of fires- that is IGNITIONS (cigarette, exhaust, arson etc) have gone DOWN actually. But the size, season, elevation- that is CONDITIONS (record heat, record drought, lack of snowfall, etc) have led to the skyrocketing of wildfires, it’s a similar story for the US west coast from Alaska down to California.
If it’s not Canada, the U.S. is on fire. If it isn’t the U.S., it’s Croatia or Italy. If it isn’t Europe it’s Australia. Wild fires occur regularly in many places.
We aren’t. We have a fire season the same way any area with large forests has a fire season. This year is exceptionally bad because climate change has lead to extremely hot dry summers and unusually warm, dry winters. We had a fraction of the usual snow fall.
There is a part of Canada that is perptually on fire. Broadly the region of Northern BC, Northern Alberta, Northern Saskatchewan These places straddle the tree limit and the tundra region where it’s the dryest part of Canada where trees can barely survive. It makes for excellent kindling to start a forest fire. These areas are very remote and while the federal and provincial governments do their best to crush these small fires, they’re harder to detect.
Every single year climate change dries out more and more forest making them susceptible to starting firing and spreading faster. In the last ten years or so it has been making the news more frequently as these fires begin wiping out small communities and progressing towards larger cities.
The dry season also attracts bugs, specifically pine beetles that consume trees and provide even more fuel for fires.
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A lot of the time lightning can cause the wildfires in areas where people don’t live so no one can get there quickly to manage the fire before it becomes unmanageable.
Fires in general are a natural process that is beneficial and supposed to happen in different parts of the world. They would happen if we weren’t here and they have an important function and purpose in nature that in and of itself is not inherently bad. However humans of course have accelerated the entire effect. Whether it’s global warming, dumb actions from people on a residential level/citizen level, whether is pollution. You name it. Bad wildlife practices or whatever.
But, this would 100% happen naturally and is beneficial in it’s own way. How often, how much, and how intense those fires are can be affected by a variety of things which could be considered unnatural
A plague of mountain pine beetles, insufficient forest management, and dry weather have all contributed to this problem
It is a huge country with a small population all clustered to the south. The north is largely vast wilderness, most of it forested with sparse human populations, which might so it’s harder to spot small fires before they become big ones.
On top of that, global temperatures have been rising and this area has become drier, increasing both the likelihood and severity of wildfires. Human activity increases fire risk in other ways too: they are the largest direct cause in many areas, and certain forestry techniques (monocultures, lack of controlled burns) make the whole thing riskier.
It all adds up to lots of fires, rising largely in step with global temperatures.
It’s not.
I have lived in Canada my entire life and don’t remember ever experiencing wildfires to the scale and severity that we have this year. Obviously, Canada is a pretty big place, and your mileage may vary depending where you are in the country, but it’s been a pretty unprecedented shit show over here.
Most wildfires don’t make news, you’d be surprised how many forest fires there are every day all over the world.
Trees.
Because Canadians are HOT HOT HOT!
It’s cold
Canadian Shield
Climate change, invasive species and a really big fucking country. Oh, almost forgot, climate change deniers aren’t helping either.
So many trees, so little people. They have a lot of unpopulated land.
Climate change.
Where there’s forests there’s forest fires. It’s nature. Canada is mostly forest
Lots of fuel
Cuz orange man bad. Oh, sorry. Wrong sub
There is a lot of forrest here and it’s summer.
It’s full of fire-driven ecosystems. Recent human-related changes have made fires more likely & harder to contain when it’s necessary to do so. But, really, the fact is, most of Canada is supposed to be on fire semi-regularly.
Because throughout history Canadas forests were managed by indigenous peoples who burned parts of the forests for various reasons, and that served very well for forest management.
We shoved all these peoples into reserves and revoked their privileges of managing the forests, they all grew unchecked, and now we have millions of acres of forests that need to burn, and it is just catching up with us now.
Climate change affects us all.
It could be in your country soon.
According to Trump , California doesn’t rake up under the trees , by coincidence Canada and Australia also don’t.
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb
If you look at a map of where Canada is on fire, you’ll notice that it is not near the population centers that are clustered around the southern border.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/population-density-of-canada/
They’re basically opposites. As a result, firefighting efforts are hampered, but also theoretically less critical.
https://databasin.org/datasets/fd2cff38687249598450d09154753840/
And the fires are basically the same as the forest coverage map, for obvious reasons. And that’s a LOT of forest.
So basically, it’s a result of a huge amount of undeveloped forested land
We have trees
There are 9.98 million square kilometers of wilderness in Canada.
A space that is nearly impossible for the human mind to comprehend.
Statistically, it then makes sense that there is always a fire somewhere. Especially considering the effects of climate change which drastically increases both the probability and the severity of wildfires.
I’m from Alaska. We have many wildfires every year. Most, especially in the Interior are caused by lightning strikes. They are then allowed to burn unless they threaten developed areas. I suspect many of the fires in Canada are started the same way.
Can blame climate change as much as people want. It’s mainly decades of mismanagement.
Remember all those Smokey the Bear commercials? Fire is an essential part of the forest life cycle. It’s been decades too long without small fires.
Trees, lots of trees.
It’s NOT
I read this as Canada is fire 🔥😛
Canada has a tree planting industrial complex. Taking in government money to pay kids to plant trees in a manner that is highly tuned to burn. Now they want to replant on this burnt land in the same manner…
This comes after the industry spent decades calling old forests diseased and needing to be clear cut.
Vast forests
Literally or figuratively?
Because we have a lot of trees
Me thinks tree’s are asking the same question
Because we haven’t yet cut down all our trees.
In the Rockies there are more trees than 100 years ago. More fuel.
The same reasons that the United States is on fire.
Global warming.
Edit: Had to break this up cause reddit didn’t like how long my post was. Please see further comments below to read my full comment: I’m a wildland firefighter in Canada. Wildfire is a natural part of many forest ecosystems, particularly the boreal forest that makes up most of Northern Canada, and where the majority of our large wildfires are. There are trees such as white spruce that are actually adapted to wildfire and won’t release their seeds to reproduce until a fire comes through. There is a regular timescale on which different ecosystems will naturally burn and it varies but can be as little as every year or two.
Basically a certain amount of dead biomass will accumulate, and after a stretch of hot dry weather a lightning strike will ignite a fire. These fires will spread a certain distance based on a combination of available fuel (in this case trees, grasses, shrubs, etc), weather and topography.
Weather is the biggest one. Our peak burn always comes at the hottest time of day and we always look for ‘crossover’, when the ambient dry bulb temperature surpasses the relative humidity of the air. Crossover leads to extreme fire behaviour because there is less moisture in the air to inhibit the fire’s spread and more ambient heat available. Even in a tinder dry forest, fire behaviour slows dramatically in the evenings as temperature drops and relative humidity increases. Wind is also a big driver of extreme fire behaviour. High winds give more oxygen to the fire, push it forward and can alsp carry firebrands through the air to ignite new areas outside of the fire’s perimeter. We call this spotting and depending on the size of the fire, the size of the trees and the strength of the wind a fire can spot several kilometres. In this case natural barriers like rivers, lakes or swamplands won’t limit a fire’s spread.
Topography is also important because fires will tend to move faster upslope due to preheating of fuels as hot air rises. Chutes and canyons can also experience extremely strong local winds that can drive fires.
Fuels are the last one. Fuel refers to anything in the forest that will burn. For a fire to get started you need dry enough fine fuels. Think of your tinder when starting a campfire. In the forest these are things like grasses, spruce needles or twigs less than the size of a pinky finger. These dry out FAST in the right conditions and will readily ignite with a lightning strike. Fore a fire to really dig in and have staying power though your larger fuels also need to be dry enough to be receptive. Dead trees will dry out much more quickly than live ones and provide more fuel. Fire is nature’s way of clearing out some of these dead plants to make way for new growth.
These processes have been ongoing for as long as the boreal forest has existed and are a natural part of the environment. The fire behaviour we’re seeing these days though bears little relation to those natural processes of succession in the history of the boreal. So why are fires so much larger and more extreme now? Topography largely hasn’t changed, but fuels and weather absolutely have.
Canada is very thinly populated, is very very big and has lots and lots of forests. The odds of there being not a single fire, during fire season, across the entire country, are pretty much zero.
For comparison, California literally has 1000s of significant wild fires a year
2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires
for the 2025 season we’re at 4,423 (so far)
Too many people drank Canada Dry!
It’s drakes fault
Canada has an incredible amount of forest and people that are mainly all clustered into a line. This means that when a fire breaks out in some of the largest patches of forest in the world and it’s not near anyone, it sometimes makes sense not to do anything and let natural processes take hold. It’s also worth mentioning that it’s gotten unusually hot recently for some reason and fires are more likely to break out
Cause we lit.
This news opinion piece, written by Jesse Zeman, the Executive Director of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, explains the situation quite well for British Columbia. (I can’t speak about other Canadian provinces because I don’t live there and am not sufficiently aware of their forest management practices.)
Jesse Zeman: Archaic management has turned our forests into an overstuffed matchbox
Opinion: Until we overhaul forest management, raging wildfires and smoky skies will become the norm. How do you like your smoke?
Published Jul 16, 2021
(link to article on web)
After record temperatures seared much of the province, this year’s fire season got off to an early start, and that’s a problem. Our forests are a ticking timebomb.
While many people will point to climate change to explain recent historically destructive fire seasons, B.C.’s history of fire suppression and archaic forest management has turned our forests into an overstuffed matchbox that grows more dangerous with each passing year.
We have already witnessed tragic losses experienced by the Nlaka’pamux First Nation and the village of Lytton. It will only get worse. Decades of fire suppression have resulted in fuel loading and forest ingrowth, crowding out biodiversity and putting people at risk. By putting out every fire on the landscape, we are creating forests that are bristling with fuel just waiting for a spark.
Much of B.C. is part of an ecosystem where fire naturally occurs every five to 200 years. In the Central Interior, many areas historically burn every five to 30 years. Under the right circumstances, fire is good. Fire is part of a natural process that rejuvenates grasslands and promotes biodiversity.
In much of the Interior, fire is an integral component of functioning and productive habitat for grizzly bears, moose, elk, mule deer, and sheep, creating food for wildlife by regenerating the soil and letting in sunlight, which creates ideal conditions for new plants and berries to grow. Many of these species are currently in decline, with some at record lows, due in part to fire suppression. On Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and in the Fraser Valley, the Garry Oak ecosystem is endangered due largely to fire suppression.
Broadleaf trees are nature’s fuel break, slowing and reducing the intensity of fires; they also support biodiversity and provide our moose with food. Unfortunately, B.C.’s outdated forest policies treat broadleaf trees, such as aspen, like weeds in order to promote the growth of merchantable timber. In parts of B.C., we actually spray broadleaf trees with the herbicide glyphosate to kill them off on a massive scale. The combination of climate change, archaic forest policies and 100-plus years of fire suppression have led to fires that burn hotter and are far less controllable, destroying trees, soil, private property, and putting people’s lives and livelihoods at risk.
What we do after a fire is vital. A post-fire landscape left untouched creates a natural fire break. As new plants and trees grow in, the burned trees that we leave standing are critical for moisture retention and temperature regulation in the soil. In as little as a year, many burned areas sound like a symphony, teeming with life from bugs to birds to bears. But our archaic forest policies often do not allow this to happen. Instead, we too often go in and log areas burned by fire as quickly as possible, because burned trees are harder to cut at the mill after a couple of years.
Logging after wildfire often leaves behind a barren landscape, with stunted native plants due to a lack of temperature regulation and moisture retention in the soil. Roads for logging invite invasive weeds. The lack of vegetation can exacerbate erosion, flooding and sedimentation in our watersheds.
B.C. has been so focused on cutting down and selling trees, it has failed to account for the costs of fire suppression, loss of biodiversity, food security and tourism. Forestry could play a critical role in mitigating the effects of wildfire by reducing fuel loads and thinning forests. But that will require a completely new way of thinking. Until we overhaul forest management, raging wildfires and smoky skies will become the norm. We need to forge a new relationship with our forests, watersheds and wildlife, focusing on sustainability and resiliency. Otherwise, with climate change, these problems only get worse.
We can take one of two approaches: Keep putting fires out and treating native tree species, such as aspen, like weeds until the fuel loading is so bad that the ensuing wildfires are virtually uncontrollable. Or we can invest in our landscapes, have controlled burns in the spring and fall and let some fires burn to create a natural diverse landscape that mitigates wildfires, supports people and wildlife.
The question is: How do you like your smoke?
Same reason California is always on fire
Also, we are building more and more into forested areas. So of course wildfires will be more expensive,plus, more homes have expensive toys.
God hates it? 🤷🏻♀️
A century of fire suppression has left lots of dead wood on the ground and on the trees. Most of these trees are also conifers, so naturally flammable. If you let fires burn naturally, like they have before human intervention, then these fires tend to stay relatively small and clean up the dead wood, without really harming the mature trees. Occasionally, the interval between fires becomes too long, so when a fire inevitably does occur, more fuel gets burnt, and therefore bigger fires. These have been documented in May of 1780, which darkened the skies over New England. The New Brunswick fire of October 1825 was the largest in Canadian history, which burned about 6,000 square miles, roughly equal to one-fifth of New Brunswick’s territory. Such fires are relatively common in conifer forests around the world, and are an important part of the natural ecosystem.
Because it’s dry, Canada Dry.
EDIT: Sorry, misread the post.
They don’t rake their forests.
It just seems like it bc we don’t have a lot of drama to fill the newspapers so we report every single wildfire. It’s just filler. It’s actually kinda nice that that happens in comparison.
A forest fire requires forests to fire.
And we got a lot of forests
So we have a lot of fire
Also climate change
They don’t rake their forests
US special forces preparing for the invasion.
If the Canadian lumberjacks are exhausted they can’t mount a defence.
You know what man idk it sucks.
Cause it’s full of dumbasses, very few of them that aren’t completely goofy. Kinda like people from Minnesota. You can just tell right off that they aren’t firing on all 8
You’re gonna have to be more specific.
Much of the forests in Canada are evolved to burn semi regularly.
A patch of boreal forest usually burns every 20-30 years. It clears out the underbrush and dead trees, and helps spread seeds.
However because of climate change making everything warmer and drier, and invasive species that kill trees (whose ranges have expanded because of climate change) the wildfires are becoming much more frequent than they should be.
Under normal conditions there will always be some fires every year but unless they approach populated areas they can be left alone. In some cases we’ll do intentional burns if a patch of forest hasn’t burned in a long time since it will become unhealthy without fire.
But we are not in normal conditions anymore.
We didn’t eat our broccoli
Because arsonists are lighting it on fire.
Bigass remote forest.
The Boreal forest needs to go through natural burn cycles in order to get rid of brush and add more nutrients to the soil and that just happens naturally as a result of the nature of the force type and the altitudes.
And the Lord deciduous forests you have a lot of insect activity that will break down the leaves and various other things into soil a lot faster but in the Boreal North you have a lot more conifers and conifers in particular contain substances that resist decomposition.
Interestingly enough I see earth goes through its natural or being cooling cycles you’ll actually see deciduous trees slowly make the way more North through another cycle which always see when it’s dispersed seeds germinating before the conifers can, and then what’s the conifers established and fall you will see nut-based trees come in as a climax species. But that only happens in The More Southern areas where you have sufficient topsoil and temperatures.
That’s kind of the summary of why it’s happening, the forest fires get started by lightning as a natural phenomenon, and with the introduction of more invasive species which tend to kill more trees we tend to see a temporary increase of more or longer Burns.
There are wildfires across the US and Canada all the time. Take a look here: https://fire.airnow.gov/#5.05/39.57/-106.28
basically all the same reasons California has fire problems. they make up a bunch of reasons and don’t do anything to change it
There are wildfires all over the world every day in countries with vast forested wilderness. Please look into it, you’ll be shocked.
These wildfires are getting much worse every year due to climate change. Please look into it, you’ll be shocked.
Climate change. Not enough snow. Over-logging.
Cuz our life is dope and we do dope shit
we lit op
Some people do start them as well, because Canadians like to party. Bonfires in the woods are not unheard of in Canada.
Everyone blames climate change (or lightning), but that is not always the case. Guaranteed it is from bush fires or campers, or the most obvious culprit? The extreme amount of homeless people that live in the woods.
Lightening strikes are the main contributor. We have lots of forests to act as fuel.
because we’re the hottest country 😉
Because they don’t pay their fair share for defense.
Read the book “Fire Weather”, explains it all.
It’s not. Only in recent years. Of note is that the number of fires- that is IGNITIONS (cigarette, exhaust, arson etc) have gone DOWN actually. But the size, season, elevation- that is CONDITIONS (record heat, record drought, lack of snowfall, etc) have led to the skyrocketing of wildfires, it’s a similar story for the US west coast from Alaska down to California.
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Back when, ancient history, in one class in school we went over the journals from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
An exploration of north western ish US. They wrote often about skirting fires, and the results of burned out sections of woods.
They attributed the many fires to lightning strikes or mismanagement of camp fires from the indigenous inhabitants.
So, woods have lots of flammable stuff in them.
If it’s not Canada, the U.S. is on fire. If it isn’t the U.S., it’s Croatia or Italy. If it isn’t Europe it’s Australia. Wild fires occur regularly in many places.
Because it’s made of wood!
Same thing in California! Wildfires and the protection of wildlife!
Paid fire bugs to swath finances and political gain…
We aren’t. We have a fire season the same way any area with large forests has a fire season. This year is exceptionally bad because climate change has lead to extremely hot dry summers and unusually warm, dry winters. We had a fraction of the usual snow fall.
Because Canadians are hot. 😎
They never used to be.
There is a part of Canada that is perptually on fire. Broadly the region of Northern BC, Northern Alberta, Northern Saskatchewan These places straddle the tree limit and the tundra region where it’s the dryest part of Canada where trees can barely survive. It makes for excellent kindling to start a forest fire. These areas are very remote and while the federal and provincial governments do their best to crush these small fires, they’re harder to detect.
Every single year climate change dries out more and more forest making them susceptible to starting firing and spreading faster. In the last ten years or so it has been making the news more frequently as these fires begin wiping out small communities and progressing towards larger cities.
The dry season also attracts bugs, specifically pine beetles that consume trees and provide even more fuel for fires.
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California would like to have a word
Tate McRae
Years of in action with climate change and global warming hotter summers and less precipitation. Right still claims that it is a hoax.
Lots of forest.