Fires In Canada 2025 Effects On Environment. Intense wildfires are blazing across canada with thousands evacuated and smoke blown as far south as the us state of georgia, creating hazardous air quality for millions. The canadian wildfires of 2023 have set a new record for the largest area burned in the country’s history.

So many trees burned during canada’s historic wildfire season last year that the forest emitted more carbon than most countries’ fossil fuel emissions for 2022, according to. News environment ‘fire weather’ is hitting the north the hardest, study says in the worst region, bordering bc and the yukon, extreme conditions increased by 1.8 days every year over two decades.