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As of this week, more than 906,000 hectares of British Columbia have been consumed by wildfires since April — easily surpassing any year on record for the province.

And with several more weeks of summer to go, thousands more hectares of brush and forest are expected to fall to the flames before autumn.

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“Temperatures should be relatively seasonal going forward, so that’s one silver lining,” Kevin Skrepnek with the B.C. Wildfire Service told the Canadian Press today.

However, high winds and a lack of rain will be keeping forests ablaze for the time being.

A total of 1,030 individual fires have hit B.C. in the last five months — a rough average of seven per day. As of this writing, 149 of them are still burning.

The fires have blanketed much of Western Canada in a summerlong smoky haze.

Photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

This week, Cold Lake, Alberta briefly logged a 10 on the Air Quality Health Index, the most hazardous numbered rating possible. Across a vast smoke-shrouded swath of Interior B.C., from Prince George to the Okanagan, residents continue to be under a warning to avoid “strenuous outdoor activities.”

The previous wildfire record for B.C. is from 1958, when 855,968 hectares were burned.

The size of the 2017 burned area is equal to more than one and a half Prince Edward Islands, and virtually all of Cape Breton Island. It’s equivalent to 2,250 Stanley Parks, with several dozen more Stanley Park-sized areas burning every day.