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Fire name Hectares burned Fire Centre Date discovered Comments Link Bloedel fire 75,000 Sayward July 5 1938 0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point.
2018 British Columbia wildfires: British Columbia British Columbia: summer 2018: 50+ [35] 1,298,454 hectares (3,208,550 acres) Initial estimates put 2018 as the largest total burn-area in any British Columbia wildfire season, surpassing the 2017 wildfire season. [36] 2019 Alberta wildfires: Northwestern and Central Alberta Alberta: Mar–Dec ...
The fire eventually consumed over 32,000 hectares and destroyed 358 of Jasper's 1,113 structures. [24] [25] Smoke from the fire combined with that from Park Fire in California and reduced air quality as far as New England and Mexico [26] The Jasper fire continued to grow through August along its southern border. [27]
REVELSTOKE, British Columbia (Reuters) -Canada is sending the military to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday, as the western province ...
A total of 2,115 wildfires burned 1,351,314 hectares (3,339,170 acres) of land in 2018 as of November 9. [9] As of August 28, initial estimates put 2018 as the largest burn-area in a British Columbia wildfire season, [1] surpassing the historic 2017 wildfire season (1,216,053 total hectares). [10] The total land burned in 2018 represented about ...
The late-January fire that tore through the Columbia Rising Apartments engulfed a portion of the roof and left at least 16 units damaged. Thirty people who started the day with a home ended it ...
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires. [10]On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) [11] [12] and sent people fleeing for their lives.
Smoke from the fire could be seen from as far away as the Hallam area in York County and Manheim Township in Lancaster County, Lancaster Online reported. Firefighters rushed to the blaze around 8: ...