If you go out to the woods this weekend, you may be in for a campfire ban.
Most of the province is at an elevated risk of forest fires, so the provincial forest fire fighting agency has banned outdoor fires.
Parts of Quebec south of Labrador, along with the Gaspé and the Charlevoix region are only facing a low to moderate risk of wild fires, and so in those regions fires is allowed.
The risk of a wildfire is also high southeast of the St. Lawrence River, from the Ontario border to Quebec City, along with a portion of the Mauricie, but the provincial forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU says the risk is, so far, manageable.
There are currently two wildfires burning in the province: one near Senneterre, north of Val d'Or, and the second burning east of Saint Hippolyte in the Laurentians, about 45 km northwest of Montreal.
Both fires started on Thursday and are currently being controlled.
So far this year there have been 227 fires, about 50 below the norm at this time of June.
Collectively those fires have only burned 168 hectares, which is less than one percent of what has normally been burned in forest fires.
