Alberta Wildfire says it saw an average number of wildfires last year, but the area burned across the province set a record.
The province saw a total of 1,088 wildfires that burned about 2.2 million hectares from March 1 to Oct. 31. The five-year average for area burned about 226,000 hectares
Melissa Story, community relations co-ordinator for the wildfire management branch in Alberta Forestry and Parks, said 2023 was a record-breaking year.
“The number of wildfires that we responded to last year was average — but the number of hectares burned tells a very different story,” she said in an interview.
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