northern forestry centre

Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made.

“Definitely this year, with a possible change in human activity, we might have a possible change in fire numbers and area burned," says one federal fire research analyst.

The climate crisis is making devastating wildfires more intense and more frequent. Both countries are facing increasingly urgent decisions about how to prepare.