About 200 fires are actively burning in Canada and have consumed about 19,900 square kilometres of terrain, most of it in the last week. View on euronews

Wildfires scorching several Canadian provinces have driven at least 33,400 people from their homes, with smoke now reaching all the way to Europe.

It’s still early in the season and Canadian wildfires have already burned 7.8 million acres. The yearly average is 7.3 million acres.

The country's legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke, endangering people in its path.

Wind pushed smoke from Alberta and B.C.’s wildfires to Calgary Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, leading to an air quality warning for the city and a large portion of the province. Some of those fires have grown significantly due to the merging of four smaller blazes into two larger ones.

Smoke from the deadly Canada wildfires is blanketing parts of the US and Europe, causing widespread air quality concerns. The Environmental Protection Agency has reported "very unhealthy" air quality in the Midwest, Northeast, and Great Lakes regions of the US, prompting expert recommendations for precautionary measures.