With 5 million hectares of forest burned, Canada decimated by a third dark year of fires

In Canada, fire seasons follow one another and are similar. For the third consecutive year, the 5 million hectare mark burned has just been crossed. A sequence that chills scientists: "This is unprecedented," points out Yan Boulanger, a forest ecology researcher at the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources. According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre , an organization that coordinates information on wildland fires, flames will have already covered 5.6 million hectares in 2025; more precise satellite data indicates a total of 5 million hectares. A third dark year after 2024 (5.3 million hectares burned) and