Saskatchewan wildfires' area larger than Toronto

CBC News | Posted: July 7, 2015 11:45 PM | Last Updated: July 7, 2015

Wildfires total more than 200 square km larger than the GTA

Media | Graphic: 2015 Saskatchewan wildfires total area larger than GTA

Caption: This graphic shows how the combined surface area of Saskatchewan's 2015 wildfires is larger than that of the GTA.

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

How big is that? It's 7,362 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 square kilometres.

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

Media Video | (not specified) : Graphic: Egg fire threatens La Ronge, Sask.

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

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Saskatchewan wildfires' area larger than Toronto

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