Environment Canada says Newfoundland and Labrador is in for an average wildfire season for 2025 – that’s despite a very early and devastating start to the province’s forest fire season.
As of mid-May, the province had recorded 64 wildfires, including a raging one that destroyed dozens of properties in Adam’s Cove forcing residents to flee with just the clothes on their backs.
(Photo by Eugene Howell)
In Labrador, residents and workers at Churchill Falls were on tenterhooks when flames from a massive fire came within feet of major power infrastructure.
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Environment Canada’s fire forecast was released yesterday as part of its summer outlook.
Research scientist Bill Merryfield says a warm spring is going to fuel a hectic wildfire season for western Canada in particular.
“The elevated fire weather severity is partly due in the west to the dry spring that we had, particularly in May and June throughout the western provinces, nearly all of the western provinces and northwestern Ontario, but then the warmer than normal temperatures certainly factor into the forecast as well,” says Merryfield.
Photo via Environment Canada
