… Fires in Canada’s Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) are becoming more common as cities continue to sprawl, increasing the risk to structures. Regions across the country are grappling with the competing pressures of building housing and expanding industry, while climate change… continues to create hot, dry conditions that make wildfires more intense and frequent. A paper released in 2024 states that the “unprecedented expansion of global urbanization” has led to huge expansion of the WUI globally — by nearly 36 per cent since 2000, with 85 per cent of that growth occurring between 2010 and 2020. The study findings highlight the urgency of implementing tailored fire management strategies in WUI areas. However, there are no up-to-date figures on WUI in Canada, though Natural Resources Canada notes, “the risk of WUI fire is expected to increase both in regions of Canada with a long history of wildfires and in those with no such history.”