Alberta and BC Have Already Battled Hundreds of Blazes in Early Start to Wildfire Season

The Burgess Creek Wildfire, about 600 kilometres north of Vancouver on April 20, 2024. Courtesy BC Wildfire Service

Alberta has already had nearly double the number of wildfires it usually gets at this time of year–and the short-term outlook does not look much better.

“Conditions remain very dry,” Josee St. Onge, the province’s wildfire information officer, said at a news conference on April 24.