> “They are burning larger areas, they're burning more severely, they're burning over a longer fire season in mountainous regions, they’re burning at higher ele

> “They are burning larger areas, they're burning more severely, they're burning over a longer fire season in mountainous regions, they’re burning at higher elevations where it's typically cooler as well.” This doesn't seem to be supported by the Government's own data however: https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb The number of fires is clearly in decline and the area burned is stable with lots of statistical noise and clearly in decline on average for the past 10 years. > Dahl offered one solution for preventing wildfires moving forward — “radically” reducing the amount of human development in wildfire-prone areas. “That should reduce the human ignitions of wildfire and the fact that people spark most wildfires,” she explained. This is also not based in reality: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/forest-fire https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/forest-fir... > Of Canada’s approximately 6,000 annual fires, just over half are started by people (most by accident), and just under half by lightning. Being generally less accessible, the average fire started by lightning is several times as large as a human-caused fire.