Overview
- Environment and Climate Change Canada ranked wildfires as the year’s top story, calling 2025 Canada’s second‑worst wildfire year on record.
- Drought deepened across much of the country as Western Canada set late‑summer heat records that heightened risk.
- An Arctic Ocean storm surge flooded Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., securing a place on the national list of significant events.
- Ontario contended with a major ice storm and separate rounds of powerful thunderstorms, while central and eastern regions saw memorable snowstorms.
- The summary also highlights May heat and dryness that intensified Manitoba wildfires, widespread Prairie storm damage, and a November system that overshadowed the Canadian hurricane season.