{"id":75676,"date":"2025-07-19T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75676\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:19:16","slug":"federal-officials-say-wildfire-forecast-shows-high-risk-of-more-fires-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75676\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal officials say wildfire forecast shows high risk of more fires in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August, federal officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5.5 million hectares of land have burned so far this year, more than double the 10-year average for mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>That is still well behind the record fire season in 2023, when more than 6,000 fires burned more than 15 million hectares of land.<\/p>\n<p>There were 561 fires burning as of Friday, including 69 that were considered out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire risk typically rises throughout August and they are predicting higher than normal temperatures for most of the country next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is consistent with climate change projections, which show that the next five years will be warmer than (we) are used to,&#8221; said Sebastien Chouinard, the director of operations at the Canadian meteorological centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH |\u00a0&#8216;We&#8217;re always concerned,&#8217; says minister about 2025 Canadian wildfire season<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752938356_827_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">\u2018We\u2019re always concerned,\u2019 says minister about 2025 Canadian wildfire season<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski, speaking during a federal government update on the current Canadian wildfire season, says that the \u2018safety of Canadians is our first priority at all times.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>August is also slated to bring below-normal rainfall levels for the Prairies, B.C. and the Maritimes.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan has already seen one of the worst fire seasons ever in terms of area burned, and a record number of people have been forced out of their homes in that province.<\/p>\n<p>More than 530 firefighters from Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States are in Canada to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada and there is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-75676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114880575170969280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}