> while 2020 was one of the lowest years on record
Kind of an interesting data point given that wildfires are often unintentionally started by humans and 2020 was the bulk of the lockdown from COVID.
Kind of an interesting data point given that wildfires are often unintentionally started by humans and 2020 was the bulk of the lockdown from COVID.
1. the vast majority of forest fires in Canada are started by lightning strikes.
2. Canada did not have strict lock-down rules like much of the world; going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey do
If so, going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey not do.
Canada is big. The covid rules were by province. Quebec in the east had lockdowns, but the fires discussed in the article are in the west.