It’s already a large fire year in Canada: Weather watch
![Burned spruce trees on a backdrop of orange vegetation](https://assets-woodwell.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/19102515/fire-spacer-arctic-boreal-burnt-spruce-trees-RT-960x597.jpg)
photo by Rachael Treharne.
It’s already a large fire year in Canada: Weather watch
Fire season is underway in Canada. It tends to start early in Alberta and forests do burn, but the difference this year is one of scale: 2023 is an “already large fire year and it’s only mid-May,” said Brendan Rogers, an associate scientist who studies fires in Canada and Alaska’s boreal forests at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
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