August 8, 2025
RED FM News Desk
Canada’s 2025 wildfire season has become the second most severe in the country’s history.
According to data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, the fires have burned about 72,000 square kilometres — roughly equal to the size of the province of New Brunswick.
This surpasses the destruction recorded in 1989 and is about half the area burned during the record-breaking 2023 season, based on federal records dating back to 1972.
These fires have stretched firefighting resources to the limit, forced thousands of people to leave their homes, and covered many communities across the country in smoke. The largest burned areas have been recorded in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Since late May, Canada has been at its highest wildfire preparedness level, with about 1,400 international firefighters called in to assist so far. Experts warn that the growing effects of climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, are making wildfire seasons longer, more destructive, and harder to control.
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