Wildfires

Wildfires - Canada

The Canadian wildfires are the largest in the country's history. They have burned over 10 million hectares of land and destroyed over 10,000 homes. Of the more than 400 fires burning in Canada, more than one-third are in Quebec, which has little experience with so many and such large wildfires.

The smoke from the hundreds of wildfires, which has already blanketed parts of the US and placed around 75 million people under air quality alerts, has reached as far as Norway, according to scientists in that country.People in Norway may be able to smell and even notice the smoke as a light haze but there should be no health impacts due to the smoke being very diluted. Over the coming days, the plume is expected to spread across swaths of Europe but it’s unlikely people will be able to smell or notice the smoke.