Fire hotspots across Canada

As climate change increases the risk of wildfires across the globe, the spate of fires that hit Canada in May and June suggest that 2023 is on course to be the country’s worst fire season to date.

Using data from MODIS to highlight fire hotspots, this animation shows how fire outbreaks increased between from 1 May to 13 June. Above ground biomass data for the 2020 epoch from ESA’s Climate Change Biomass project was used to create the background map. The higher the value, the more material there is to burn.

See also: Carbon monoxide from fires in Canada