{"id":113043,"date":"2025-09-02T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:44:09","slug":"historic-heat-wave-fans-fires-and-spreads-smoke-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113043\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic heat wave fans fires and spreads smoke across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

An impressive, late-summer heat wave in B.C.<\/a> will help stoke more wildfires and their accompanying smoke this week.<\/p>\n

As we kick off a new month, Canadians can expect more wildfire smoke to spread across the country in the coming days as the wildfire season shows no sign of letting up, just yet.<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS: The Weather Network’s wildfire hub<\/a><\/p>\n

2025 wildfire season by the numbers (as of Aug. 27)\"Canada<\/p>\n

Canada 2025 wildfire numbers and areas burned<\/p>\n

Provincial and territorial breakdown:<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan: 2,863,430 hectares<\/p>\n

Manitoba: 2,071,002 hectares<\/p>\n

Northwestern and Yukon territories: 879,635 hectares<\/p>\n

British Columbia: 732,919 hectares<\/p>\n

Alberta: 670,479 hectares<\/p>\n

Ontario: 590,876 hectares<\/p>\n

Newfoundland and Labrador: 20,302 hectares<\/p>\n

Nova Scotia: 8,122 hectares<\/p>\n

New Brunswick: 2,508 hectares<\/p>\n

\"Current<\/p>\n

Current wildfires in Northwest Territories (Sept. 1, 2025)<\/p>\n

Nearly two-thirds of this year\u2019s burned area is concentrated in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, underscoring how Prairie provinces have bore the brunt<\/a> of 2025\u2019s devastation.<\/p>\n

Heat wave and lightning spark new fires in the West<\/p>\n

Western Canada remains in the grip of an extreme heat wave this week, with temperatures running 10 to +15\u00b0C above normal. Dry fuels and extreme heat have created explosive fire conditions.<\/p>\n

\"Current<\/p>\n

Current air quality and special air quality statement alerts (Sept. 1, 2025)<\/p>\n

On Sunday alone, 1,031 lightning strikes were recorded across B.C., sparking 34 new fires. Dozens of existing wildfires in the province remain out of control, further straining firefighting resources.<\/p>\n

Smoke plume on the move<\/p>\n

A developing upper-level trough across Ontario will transport smoke plumes from the Northwest Territories and northern Prairies southeastward this week. The changing winds will continue to drive smoke into the upper Midwest of the U.S., as well.<\/p>\n

\"Wind<\/p>\n

Wind gust forecast Wednesday afternoon Northern Canada<\/p>\n

By Thursday and Friday, smoke will likely sweep into portions of Ontario, likely degrading air quality due to the abrupt change in wind direction.<\/p>\n

The setup reaffirms how Canada\u2019s wildfire crisis has cross-border impacts, affecting communities thousands of kilometres away from the flames.<\/p>\n

The look ahead<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Western and Northern Canada rainfall accumulation for the next five days<\/p>\n

With extreme fire danger locked in over the next seven days, conditions are set to worsen, not improve. The national burned total is already more than 7.8 million hectares, and will jump significantly once again.<\/p>\n

With files from Tyler Hamilton, a meteorologist at The Weather Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An impressive, late-summer heat wave in B.C. will help stoke more wildfires and their accompanying smoke this week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,63789,16581,44,63790,63788],"class_list":["post-113043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fires-in-the-west","tag-heat-wave","tag-news","tag-smoke-plumes","tag-the-weather-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}