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This image shows: Barrington Lake Fire with massive smoke plume, Nova Scotia, Canada - 29 May 2023.
For much of May 2023, wildland fires raged in western Canada. In the last few days of the month, blazes flared up thousands of miles to the east as well, in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. The fires, unusually large for Nova Scotia, forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
By the morning of May 31, after four days of burning, a fire near Shelburne fire had scorched 17,000 hectares (66 square miles) near the southern tip of Nova Scotia. It became the largest forest fire in the province’s history, according to CBC Nova Scotia, exceeding the area burned (13,000 hectares) by a fire in Guysborough County over six days in June 1976.
The fire in Shelburne grew rapidly from 6,000 hectares on that day to 17,000 hectares two days later, due to dry and windy conditions. More than a thousand people were evacuated from the area.
Fires have burned in Canada for weeks, as the western part of the country experienced a record-breaking streak of hot weather in mid-May. Several regions in Canada also had an abnormally dry spring; Nova Scotia received about half of the usual amount of rainfall in April. Authorities classified both the Halifax and Shelburne County fires as uncontrolled on May 31 and expected the fires to grow as dry and windy conditions continued.
Fire activity in Canada has been unusually destructive in 2023. Two million hectares (800 square miles) had burned by the end of May, which is 13 times the 10-year average for that time of year.
Where: Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: 31 May 2023
Credit: ISRO/U.S. Geological Survey/Pierre Markuse/Cover Images
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