WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s worst wildfire season in 30 years isn’t finished despite the onset of freezing temperatures and snow, and there’s a fear some blazes could smoulder underground and resurface next spring.

The Manitoba Wildfire Service’s latest situation report said 66 fires — mostly in the North and none posing a danger to communities — were still burning as of Sunday.

“To have this many active (in late November) is unusual,” said Mike Flannigan, a wildfire scientist at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. “Most of (them) will be smouldering. They’re not posing a threat other than the potential for some of them to survive through winter.”

The active fires were classified as under control or being monitored. Some are in areas that were blanketed by snow in October.

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