Wildfires left their mark across the Western landscape this weekend, scorching more than a million acres in the United States and Canada. The intensity of the blazes, at such an early stage in the wildfire season, was called “unprecedented” by officials. There are currently 59 large fires burning; together, they have scorched an estimated 863,976 acres across 12 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Montana, Idaho and Arizona, where two firefighters were killed on Saturday while responding to a blaze, all have at least 10 fires currently ablaze. In Canada, fires have burned more than 500,000 acres.

Source: New York Times July 12, 2021 22:34 UTC