U.S. air quality hit as 204 wildfires burn across Canada

Wildfires in Canada have forced thousands of residents to evacuate in three provinces, impacting air quality in the U.S. — and smoke from the deadly fires has even blown across the Atlantic and reached the U.K.The big picture: The U.S. announced Monday the deployment of 150 federal firefighting personnel to Canada to help tackle the escalating threat of the fires that researchers and officials say are being fueled by climate change.Smoke Overtakes Skies Above Eastern U.S.Wildfire smoke has overtaken skies above the Eastern United States. This time lapse shows the drifting smoke over the last three days.Posted by Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere on Monday, June 2, 2025The fires that killed two people in Manitoba have been impacting air quality across the country and into the U.S. for days, with an alert issued for the entire state of Minnesota until 12pm Wednesday ET.Threat level: Mandatory evacuation orders have been enacted in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta provinces — as Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) data showed the number of fires across Canada grew to 204 by Monday night, with six new blazes igniting and 106 burning out of control.The premiers of the western provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan both made 30-day provincial states of emergency declarations.What they're saying: "This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people's living memory," Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told reporters after over 17,000 residents were evacuated last Thursday."For the first time, it's not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to."Context: "Climate change is fueling devastating wildfires burning across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta through intensified heat, drought and atmospheric condition," per a Bluesky post by climate change policy research group the Canadian Climate Institute."Climate change is making wildfires bigger, hotter and more frequent in Canada, which is warming twice as fast as the global average."The fires intensified during the last week of May as drought and atmospheric conditions collided with early season heat, per a report from Climate Central.This made "high temperatures in parts of central Canada at least five times more likely than they would be in a world without climate change," according to the climate research group. Editor's note: This a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

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