Like in many parts of the world, Canada has seen a dramatic increase in the number and size of wildfires over the last several summers, with deleterious effects on health, ecosystems and indigenous communities. The summer of 2023 was Canada's most destructive wildfire season ever recorded, with at least 6623 fires destroying over 18.4 million hectares of land (Figure 1).1 This shattered the previous record of 7.6 million hectares burned in 1989 and is more than six times the 10-year average of 2.5 million hectares. Increasingly devastating wildfire seasons are predicted, as the scale of the damage caused by wildfires has been on the rise for several decades. Indeed, the government of Alberta, Canada recently announced the start of the 2024 wildfire season to be 10 days earlier than the usual March 1 start. The intensified threat of wildfires is undoubtably related to global climate change and the commensurate record high temperatures dry forest conditions. In recent years, the annual average temperature in Canada has increased at roughly twice the global rate and last year Canada experienced its warmest summer in over 80 years.