Saskatchewan wildfires' area larger than Toronto

Saskatchewan has already doubled its wildfires compared to 2014. This year,more than 580 fireshave burned a total of 736,000 hectares.

How big is that? It's7,362 square kilometres, an area that's larger than all of the Greater Toronto Area: the GTA sits on 7,124 square kilometres of land.

The difference is 238 squarekilometres.

Much of the blame lies with the Egg fire, which has forced awide-scale evacuation order for the La Ronge, Sask., area, displacing 7,900 evacuees.

Graphic: Egg fire threatens La Ronge, Sask.

9 years ago

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This graphic shows the key areas where the Egg fire has impeded on La Ronge, Sask., forcing an evacuation order for the area.