{"id":791873,"date":"2026-07-10T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:34:11","slug":"canadas-wildfire-season-is-manageable-so-far-but-hot-and-dry-weather-brings-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791873\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s wildfire season is manageable so far, but hot and dry weather brings risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Federal officials say the 2026 wildfire season has been manageable so far, largely because of significant amounts of rain across Western Canada.<\/p>\n

But with higher than normal temperatures and lower than normal rainfall amounts predicted for large swaths of northern and eastern regions this summer, there is still a high risk.<\/p>\n

The latest information from<\/a> the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre shows there have been 3,100 fires so far this season, compared to around 2,900 at this time last year.<\/p>\n

But the total area burned this year is less than last year, at around 12,000 square kilometres down from 46,000 square kilometres.<\/p>\n

In B.C., a pair of fires near the community of Boston Bar<\/a> have destroyed several buildings and forced evacuation orders for hundreds of properties.<\/p>\n

The 2025 wildfire season was the second-worst on record<\/a>, with more than 89,000 square kilometres burned across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-791873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791873","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=791873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}