COVID-19, the province’s wildfire season has also been a lot less active than in previous years.By the middle of June last year, thousands of acres of Alberta’s forests were ablaze, specifically within the Chuckegg Creek wildfire, which firefighters battled for weeks before gaining control of the flames.
According to Alberta Wildfire information officer Travis Fairweather, so far this year, 300 fires have burned just 450 hectares of land in the province.By this time last year, double the number of blazes were reported, with more than 650,000 hectares having caught fire.
In total, nearly 900,000 hectares burned during the 2019 wildfire season, marking the largest area to burn in 38 years. According to Mike Flannigan, professor of wildland.