Graph from a recent paper on widespread & intense surface air temperature is scary for many reasons including fire. Higher temperatures & more extreme heat will lead to more intense fires in many parts of the world largely due to drier fuels driven by increased vpd. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Northwestern Ontario bore brunt of province's wildfire season with evacuations, outages and a record blaze” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Thunder Bay #DeerLakeFirstNation #ONFire #Ontario #Wildfires

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

NPL5 in Canada means - Wildland fire activity is significant within one or more jurisdictions. Firefighters and equipment in every jurisdiction in Canada are in use & international help has been requested. Graph of the # of NPL5 days by year in Canada. There are not enough resources in recent years

New report out today - theBritish Columbia Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment (DCRRA). This assessment includes natural and climate-related hazards in BC—such as floods, extreme heat, wildfires and earthquakes climatereadybc.gov.bc.ca/pages/dcrra

New Perspective - Canada’s landscape fires spreading into uncharted territory Canada clearly needs to do more. More to prevent & mitigate wildfires, more to increase our initial response capacity and capability to protect communities & critical infrastructure. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Groups in Canada are calling on the federal government to take more action to prevent and combat wildfires www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...

10th International Conference on Forest Fire Research & 19th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit Website is now live. Just over a year away. events.adai.pt/en/10th-icffr

"Canada's landscape fires are spreading into uncharted territory." scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

Jasper 2024 Wildfire Complex: Documentation, Reconstruction and Analysis Following a highly destructive 2024 wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, a study was completed to describe the behaviour and contributing environmental factors associated with this event. ostrnrcan-dostrncan.canada.ca/entities/pub...

Why have Canada's wildfire seasons suddenly gotten worse in recent years? Stay tuned for a blog post tomorrow!

The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet In the past year, an area of land over 3.7 M km², larger than India, was burned worldwide. >100 M people were affected by these fires, and homes and infrastructure worth US$215 billion were at risk. theconversation.com/the-climate-...

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year. It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees. Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

“Wildfire smoke contains PM2.5 - a type of air pollution - that is known to trigger inflammation in the body. It can exacerbate conditions like asthma and heart disease...” www.bbc.com/news/article... - BBC News #cdnpoli #uspoli #wildfires

Some active fires in northern Alberta today. GOES-West geocolor loop below. Also, active fires in the Northwest Territories today (not shown in this loop).

Wildfires affect not just the air we breathe, but the water we drink. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15479...

🔥New paper - Comparative Analysis of Ensemble and Deterministic Models for Fire Weather Index (FWI) System Forecasting. Ensemble forecasts for fire management decision-making include probabilistic fire growth modelling, long-term strategic planning etc. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

UBC-O just posted two full-time term lecturer positions in fire ecology as part of the Canadian Prescribed Fire Training Program The positions will handle fire ecology courses and prescribed fire training. Applications are open until October 31, 2025. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

The 2025 BC fire season area burned (872k ha) has moved into 5th place with the recent fire activity. This means that the top 6 fire seasons have been since 2017 (records go back to 1950) Area burned-red bars (2017-2025 graph below) far exceeds the green bars (1950-2016). Climate change in action.

3 out of 4 Canadians are concerned about the climate crisis, up 15-points since October 2024, according to Abacus abacusdata.ca/public-conce...

New study in Nature on the Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'

Breaking News: The U.S. will provide wildfire fighters with masks, reversing a ban after a New York Times series on smoke and firefighters’ health.

Discussing the current wildfire situation in Canada, with guest Mike Flannigan - wildfire expert and professor at Thompson Rivers University. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwOW... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Canada's wildfire season is still going strong, especially out west. Join Mike Flannigan and me LIVE tomorrow evening (Monday) at 8 PM MDT / 7 PM PDT for a discussion and Q&A. Bring your questions! Chat will be streamed here: youtube.com/@KylesForeca... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

Double Yikes for BC wildfires Lots of lightning this weekend in BC (& WA-OR-ID) after a very long hot & dry period. Fuels are receptive (Duff Moisture Code is high - means very dry fuels where ltg fires typically ignite). If the forecast holds, I expect 100-200 new fire starts during Sept. 6-9 in BC

BC has 64 out of control wildfires burning and many of these are burning intensely. GOES-West 3.9 micron band (sensitive to high temperatures from wildfires) loop below showing active fires (white) and very active fires (red)

Numerous large and active fires in central BC producing large smoke flumes. GOES- West geocolor below.

Some late fire season fires in the Yukon. GOES-West geocolor loop below.

This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA

Global #wildfires #openburning intensity & emissions for August 2025 in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam.... Ongoing extreme Canada fires, record Spain+European fires & peak seasonal tropical fires @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Lots of fire in BC today - 140 active fires with 58 out of control. Some lightning today and tomorrow but possibly lots of lightning next Friday - Saturday in BC - Pacific NW. This would be after another hot -dry week means forest fuels would be very receptive to lightning strikes (ECMWF ltg map)

Fort Providence issues evacuation alert Fort Providence has issued an evacuation alert while a new evacuation notice has been issued for Jean Marie River due to wildfires.

I'll host a special Labor Day livestream on 9/1 @ 10am PT to discuss the upcoming extreme/record-breaking western Canadian heatwave, the complex and unusual weather pattern driving it, and implications for (lesser) CA heat & West Coast wildfire. #CAwx #CAfire

A double whammy - a smoke front followed by a cold front in NWT. Lots of very active fires in the NWT producing lots of smoke - GOES-West geocolor loop below. Expect significant growth on fires today as winds increase ahead of the fire and then shifts directions so that the flank becomes the head

Whati NWT issues an evacuation order due to a wildfire www.nnsl.com/home/whati-i...

This is a good read. It features some of my own research as well as the expertise of two of Canada's top wildfire scientists, Dr. Ellen Whitman and Dr. @mikeflannigan.bsky.social.🔥

Yikes! No rain for BC for 15 days (WA -OR - CA as well) - a little exaggeration but not much. 15 day ECMWF - Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) for next 15 days shows little or no rain for BC. Our fuels are dry already and they will be even more receptive to lightning/human-caused fires.

Active fires burned through the night in central BC due to drought (traditional and flash -- associated with a strong blocking upper ridge). Smoke from these fires evident in the GOES-West geocolor loop. Potential for more fire starts today and for the development of Pyrocbs (fire generated tstms)

Pyrocb (fire generated thunderstorm) on the #GarnetFire on the GOES-West geocolor loop below. Expect rapid growth.

Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly

We need a national wildfire fighting force.

Canada has been at National Preparedness Level (NPL)5 for over 77% of the days in the 2025 fire season. NPL5 (highest level - see chart below). Problem - US is at NPL4 & record-breaking season in Europe so where are the extra resources - southern hemisphere. Clearly, we do not have enough resources.

Job alerts Interested in Prescribed Burning (PB) in Canada. Two positions at University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) - PB Fire Manager and PB Operations Manager. Closing date Sept. 7th for both positions ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta... ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...

Part 2 of my deep dive examining how and why many parts of North America used to have greater wildfire burn rates... and how climate factors in: thetradeoff.substack.com/p/part-2-man...

Great coverage of Bear Gulch 🔥 in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social +excellent context RE 🔥 west of Cascades from UW's Crystal Raymond. @uw-sefs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #HarveyLab #wffrc This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...