[gjhr]

I know nothing about forest fires or the Yukon but could that just be that other fires aren't noticed because they aren't near population centers?

[monknomo]

That's the likely explanation. The Yukon has ~40k people. 30k of them live in Whitehorse. It's _very_ empty.

The remainder of the people generally live near the ~2 roads or on a river

[d0mine]

Shouldn't the fires be registered by weather satellites?