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Manitoba wildfires, Arctic Ocean storm among Canada’s top weather events for 2025
Canada experienced its second-worst wildfire year with over 8.9 million hectares burned and a record Arctic storm surge flooding Tuktoyaktuk, Environment Canada reported.
- On Thursday, Environment and Climate Change Canada released its annual top-10 weather events list, first published Dec. 18, 2025, highlighting Canada's extreme weather of 2025.
- May heat wave and dry conditions intensified wildfires in Manitoba, drought deepened across much of the country, and an Arctic Ocean storm surge flooded Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.
- Spring wildfires forced more than 32,000 Manitobans to flee, making 2025 Canada's second-worst wildfire year on record and destroying half the village of Denare Beach.
- Insurance claims and rebuilding costs climbed as communities and neighbours stepped up to help, while officials urged preparedness for repeated disasters.
- A federal report says Canada is not on track for its 2030 targets, with experts noting many events traceable to climate change and rising costs, Ryan Ness said.
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Nearly 8.9 million hectares were burned and 75,000 people had to leave their homes.
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There have been floods, snowstorms and freezing rains, a vast drought that has affected the country as a whole, but again this year, it is the forest fires that dominate the ranking of the 10 weather events of 2025, unveiled on Thursday by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).
·Montreal, Canada
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