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Wildfires happen all the time in cold climates. It's part of the natural forest cycle. For example, here are the fires that occurred this year in the Yukon terr

• bostonpete 7y ago
  Aren't those mostly human-related fires? Maybe I'm not seeing everything on mobile but it looks like they're clustered around population centers (such as they are in the Yukon)...?
  • gjhr 7y ago
    I know nothing about forest fires or the Yukon but could that just be that other fires aren't noticed because they aren't near population centers?
    • monknomo 7y ago
      That's the likely explanation. The Yukon has ~40k people. 30k of them live in Whitehorse. It's _very_ empty. The remainder of the people generally live near the ~2 roads or on a river
    • d0mine 7y ago
      Shouldn't the fires be registered by weather satellites?
• agilebyte 7y ago
  Wildfires, caused by lightning are not uniformly distributed across the same latitude or the Earth for that matter. Yukon, or North America in general, have a much higher rate of lightning strikes compared to Europe (1). https://geology.com/articles/lightning-map.shtml https://geology.com/articles/lightning-map.shtml