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🔥 The impact of spruce budworm defoliation legacies on wildfire burn severity and post-fire recovery with Jack Goldman.
🔥 Using Terrestrial Lidar to evaluate the gradual change in fuel structure following jack pine budworm outbreaks with Léo Jourdan.

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Did you miss the final session of February Flare Up 2026?
We had three up-and-coming researchers from the James Lab.
Now up on youtube/@CanadaWildfire

🔥 Wildfire containment probability is not affected by eastern spruce budworm defoliation in Ontario, Canada with Kennedy Korkola .

The February edition of the Ember is out!

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Week three of February Flareup now available on YouTube.

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Optimizing airtanker dispatch for forest fire: Max Beggs

Peat fires in a changing climate: Mike Waddington and Owen Sutton.

A daily lightning-caused fire occurrence model for BC: Sean Coogan

🔥 Novel spatial interpolation methods for the Fire Weather Index in Ontario: Shiwen Liu (Research Associate, Uof Windsor)
🔥 A daily lightning-caused wildland fire occurrence model for BC: Sean Coogan (Researcher, Thompson Rivers U)

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February Flare-Up Week 3 Seminar: Friday!
🔥Optimizing airtanker dispatch policies for forest fire control with Max Beggs (MSc student, University of Toronto)
🔥 Peat fires in a changing climate with Mike Waddington and Owen Sutton (Network PI, McMaster University)

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Looking back: Remote sensing activities at ulethbridge with Canada Wildfire last 5 years and new beginnings with Laura Chasmer
-Looking forward: The Western Airborne Observatory for Canadian Prosperity and Security with Chris Hopkinson (Western University)

Recording available at: lnkd.in/g7mZunff

Week 2 of February Flare Up is now on YouTube!
Spotlights
Boreal peat combustion during wildland fire: depth of burn, carbon loss, and environmental controls with Kailyn Nelson
Large fires in western Canada over the last 40 years and what the literature tells us about fuels with Emily Jones

Remember:
Tomorrow (Friday the 13th) 1130 EST
February Flare up week 2

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Join us for Week 2 of February Flare up!
February 13 | 0930 MT / 1130 ET | Register

Boreal Peat Combustion
Large Fires in Western Canada over the past 40 years
A look back and what comes next.

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Thank you to every partner, researcher, practitioner, student, trainee, and supporter who helped build this community. It has been an honour to be part of your lives for nearly two decades.

Canada Wildfire was built to be the “in-between” space, connecting wildfire science to practice, and helping practice shape science. We have been convening partners, supporting students and trainees, and translating research into usable learning for the people making decisions in real time.

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The sun sets over the boreal forest with firefighters crossing a field.

After 17 years, Canada Wildfire’s founding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will be coming to an end. While the MOU is concluding, our operations will continue through spring 2026, and may extend beyond as we work to complete our current mandate responsibly.

photo credit: Ang Beaulac, RPFT

Overall fire activity shifts and fire-fuel feedback effects under changing climates. (A) Shift ratios of annual area burned (AAB), annual number of fires (ANF) and annual maximum fire size (MFS) projected by static models and dynamic models with different forms of fire-fuel feedback across the country. (B) Percentage reductions (%, i.e., fire-fuel feedback effect size) of AAB, ANF and MFS projected by dynamic models relative to that of the static models. The results showed the weighted average over the 10 ecozones where the weights were calculated by the median observed AAB, ANF and MFS for the baseline period (1981–2010).

New paper in Global Ecology & Biogeography on the fire‐fuel feedback effect in Canadian forests. By 2100, under extreme climate change scenarios, fire-fuel feedback could reduce annual area burned, # of fires & annual max fire size by 21%, 21% & 16%, respectively.
Open access link: lnkd.in/gU9WUuDH

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Join us for a webinar this Friday to learn how wildfire affects biomass and soil carbon! Dr. Chasmer will discuss the impacts of a high-severity 2022 fire in the Scotty Creek watershed (NWT).

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The Fall 2025 Canadian Wildland Fire & Smoke Newsletter is out now!

Read about:
🛰️ WildFireSat, fire management from space.
🔥 Escalating fire severity trends.
☁️ Climate drivers behind record-breaking fire years.
🌀 A hurricane study shedding light on fire.

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🔥 Don't miss our next webinar this Friday! Join us to discuss two major reports on the Jasper Wildfire Complex.

📅 Nov 7 | 10:30–12:00 MT / 12:30–2:00 ET
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Final call - just a few spots left for Mission Critical Team Leader Training (MCTL)!
Dec 8–11 | Hinton, AB
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Graph showing Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and lead time for the Fire Weather Index for ensembles and deterministic forecast

🔥New paper - Comparative Analysis of Ensemble and Deterministic Models for Fire Weather Index (FWI) System Forecasting.
Ensemble forecasts for fire management decision-making include probabilistic fire growth modelling, long-term strategic planning etc.

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Quick analysis of Canadian #wildfires with #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam..., based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs, indicating sharp increased in daily total intensity/smoke emissions from Saskatchewan, Manitoba & Ontario @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Are you searching for a postdoc in Saskatchewan? I have a 1-year opportunity (with possible extension), effective immediately! This opportunity is a Mitacs Elevate with the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange! Reach out if you're interested! 🐦🔥

🛰️ Ever wonder how classification errors in remote sensing derived maps influence area estimates in stratified random sampling? 🤔
A new study explores the impact of map accuracy on area estimation and offers methods to mitigate biases.
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The Spring 2025 Canadian Wildland Fire & Smoke Newsletter is out now! Featuring articles on clean air shelters, fuel mapping innovations, evidence-based resilience training, and a new tool for visualizing ignition exposure! Always free and open source 🔥➡️

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A tree cookie sawed off the top of a stump and laying on the ground. There is duff laying around the sample and disturbed soil where I had to dig out a bit of the stump. Red curved lines mark where the fire scars are located and the outermost curls are pairs from either side of an old catface.

For #FireScarFriday is a sample from WA state. A unique remnant with approx 12 scars! I added in red lines so you can see where the scars are. This piece was sawed off the top of a stump that was cut long ago. I love how the scars and pith were preserved but not much else haha! 🌲🔥❤️

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