Kevin RussellJust to clarify, when the CBC first put up their graph of the area being destroyed by wildfire, the graph only went up to 6 million hectares.
Its 16.3 million burned now
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@kevinrns I saw the “since 2016” and immediately thought there might be some data shenanigans going on. I remember some bad wildfires in 2015 - were they intentionally excluding to make this year look “historically bad” when really it’s just a once-a-decade thing?
Oh, look, the 2015 fires were so bad there’s a Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Canadian_wildfires
“…and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned.”
Oh. No. Never mind.
I just found your reference to "since 2016" -- it was in the CBC article on the fire crisis, the article with the graph.
The article is from early June, even though the graph is brought up to date, multiple times a day.