Canadian Wildfires
From DQ Programming Advisor Garrett Rempel (a Winnipeg resident).Quote from a local reporter in Winnipeg:
As of today, 19,892 square kms of Manitoba has burned this wildfire season. That’s 3.6% of Manitoba’s land mass. For context, that area is equivalent to burning the entire land mass of the state of New Jersey.
Note, this is also just shy of the total land mass of Massachusetts which is 20,202 sqkm.
Also as a separate footnote, Manitoba is 647,797 total sqkm with a land mass of 548,360 sqkm. If it was a state, it would be just behind Texas which is 695,662 total sqkm with a land mass of 676,587 sqkm.
We have a LOT of lakes.
Manitoba is also only the 6th largest province by land area (we have 10), and 8th largest if we include territories (3 territories total) just to give an idea of where it sits in Canada in terms of scale.
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