It's an unusually active fire season. We've had a pretty serious drought in a lot of places. Most of the worst fires are in the top half of the Western Canadian provinces, which is boreal forest country. Long distances, remote communities, limited road access, and oodles of dry fuel. Lightning starts a lot of fires in these conditions.

I'm farther south. No direct forest fire hazards here, though we were under a total fire ban until a few weeks ago. When the winds aligned, though, we get hit pretty hard from the smoke from those northern fires. Just a few days ago the air quality hazard was 10 (worst) on a scale of 1-10.