Yep, almost certainly this. The same thing has been happening every year out west. It sometimes takes a day or more for lightning-caused fires to grow to a size that they can be detected via satellite.

Does anyone have proof of storms that happened in those areas coinciding with the burns and then subsequent wind patterns kicking off the larger burns?

It's believable but without proof it's just as plausible as coordinated arson.

> ”…without proof, it's just as plausible as…”

You may be interested to know that people whose job requires them to be epistemologically rigorous do not think in this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamen...

I don't see how one could reasonably say a thing that has happened before and a thing that hasn't happened before are equally plausible explanations for a thing that is currently happening.

I don't know about in the US, but in Canada in recent weeks there have been conspiracy theories floating around that the wildfires in Alberta were started by The Libs™ in order to make the provincial Conservative government look bad in the lead-up to an election.

So, uh, keep in mind that some commenters might be Just Asking Questions.

I don't wanna be too cynical but I did look at the accounts of the two people in this thread who seem to find the idea plausible and found...pretty much exactly what I expected to find. So, yeah, I agree with you, lotta JAQing off.

Historical lightning map: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30

Go back to June 1 for a good example of lots of lightning in the right area. https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe

June 6 also has some in the same rough area of Quebec

Satellites will pick it up if it's lightning. It's very common (see giant fires on the West Coast in the past few years).

Coordinated arson of that massive a scale would be incredibly difficult, and what would be the motivation to do that?

Maybe those kids throwing soup at paintings

The kids throwing soup at paintings already committed crimes attacking oil infrastructure and shutting down certain oil infrastructures (pipelines etc) that got them precisely no attention. You only know them from the soup can shit, which proves their whole point.

Sending 100,000 spam mails in five minutes is difficult. This should be much more simple if you really want to do it.

A plausible motivation could be to keep the people that matters distracted and paralyzed to react while you blow an huge damm and create the second worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl in a well known country, casually in the same f*ing day

But I'm just speculating. All possible options are open at this point except thinking that this is normal. I assume that plagues also helped.