Climate change isn’t to blame for the wildfires. Decades of poor forest management, drought (which is naturally occurring) and human error is.

Right now, much of the East Coast is blanketed in smoke from multiple wildfires burning in Canada. How many fires are burning right now?

“There were 437 active fires across Canada early Thursday — 248 of them out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC). In the western province of Alberta, 73 active wildfires were burning early Thursday, of which almost two dozen were labeled out of control, province data showed. And in British Columbia, of 82 active wildfires, 29 were considered out of control, province data showed.”