Hundreds of fires are burning in Canada while almost 90 are scorching the western U.S. in another historic fire season.
Smoke blowing into Minnesota from a cluster of wildfires in Canada degraded its air quality to the worst levels the state has recorded, while nearly 90 wildfires are burning in the western U.S. as a historically bad North American fire season rages on.The entire states of Minnesota and Wisconsin are under air quality alerts from smoke, which led to Minnesota's all-time record for poorest air
in St. Cloud on Thursday, when a sampling station registered a particulate reading of 422 micrograms per cubic meter of air.wildfires are burning in Manitoba along with dozens more in northwestern Ontario, which has had almost 1,000 wildfires this year alone—about twice the number the province usually has over the course of an entire year.active wildfires, almost all in the Northwest, which have collectively burned almost 1.8 million acres.
The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon remains the largest in the U.S., having scorched more than 400,000 acres and destroyed over 400 structures. The second biggest U.S. fire is the Dixie Fire in California, which has led to almost 8,000 people being put under evacuation orders and more than 10,000 structures threatened in north-central California, according to"Very unhealthy air quality" is expected to remain over Minnesota's Twin Cities for at least the next few days, according to the region's
office, with another round of wildfire smoke being pushed in by a cold front Saturday night into Sunday. Southerly winds could start to bring some improvement by late Tuesday or Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.President Joe Biden met virtually with a bipartisan group of governors on Friday to coordinate responses to the ongoing wildfires and work on preparedness measures for the future.
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