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2015 Canadian wildfires were a series of wildfires across Canada and Alaska in June 2015 which spread smoke across most of North America. Over two hundred fires were ablaze across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. [1]
Forest fires in Canada - 2015 . View M4-136-2016-eng.pdf (PDF, 571 KB). Issued also in French under title: Les feux de forêt au Canada - 2015. [Ottawa] : Natural Resources Canada, c2016. 1 p. : ill. To request an alternate format of a publication, complete the Government of Canada Publications email form.
June, 4,076 fires had consumed more than . 1,352,383 hectares (ha) across the country – nearly a 60% hike in area burned compared to the 10-year average. Canadian firefighters across the nation, with the help of nearly 500 firefighters from the U.S., Australia, Mexico, South Africa and New Zealand, mobilized to fight the wildfires concentrated
We developed the 30 m resolution geospatial Canadian Landsat Burn Severity (CanLaBS) product from Landsat imagery, using values of pre-fire to post-fire differences in normalized burn ratios (dNBRs) for nearly 60 Mha of area burned across Canada’s forests from 1985 to 2015, complemented with estimates of pre-fire forest composition, crown ...
8 lip 2015 · Thousands of people in Canada have fled their homes as hundreds of wildfires burn, sending thick smoke as far south as Colorado, officials said Wednesday. More than 13,000 have evacuated in...
10 lip 2020 · Understanding the population health impacts of wildfire smoke is important as climate change is anticipated to increase wildfire activity in Canada and abroad. Keywords: Canada; Economic valuation; Health impact analysis; PM(2.5); Wildfires; Wildland fires.
Wildland fire has been a persistent feature of the Canadian landscape for millennia (Richard 1993; Price et al. 2013). On average, fires have burned 1.96 Mha per year in Canada from 1959 to 2015, and the annual area burned is trending upward (Hanes et al. 2019).
