Episode
Minnesota’s Wildfires: Smoke, the Boundary Waters & Climate Change
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- Essential Minnesota
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- Jul 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1476
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Summary
This week wildfires forced the closure of the Boundary Waters, sent smoke across the Midwest and pushed air quality to hazardous, record-breaking levels. Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Kristoffer Tigue chronicles the evacuation and fire fighting efforts and what decades of data reveal about the growing connection between our wildfires and climate change.