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2023 Canadian wildfires. Beginning in March 2023, and with increased intensity starting in June, Canada was affected by a record-setting series of wildfires. All 13 provinces and territories were affected, with large fires in Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
A large plume of smoke emanates from Jasper on July 23. Beginning in mid-May, wildfires began to encroach on Fort McMurray, which had been devastated by fire in 2016. [8] [9] On the evening of May 10, the wildfire designated MWF017 was 16km southeast of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo had issued an evacuation alert. [10]
On July 22, 2024 at 7:00 pm MDT, Parks Canada reported a wildfire northeast of the town of Jasper. Shortly after, a second wildfire was reported south of the townsite. At 8:35 pm, the Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park issued 'preventive' evacuation alerts. [6] By 10:00 pm, an evacuation order was issued for the entire park, and ...
The map below presents locations in British Columbia worst hit by the wildfires as of Monday 21 August. A map of the wildfires currently raging in British Columbia, Canada (The Independent ...
According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, about 19 million acres of land had burned by that date, easily eclipsing the previous record of 17.5 million acres set in 1995. In July ...
Wildfires have set millions of acres ablaze across Canada so far in 2023. The fires have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate, destroyed homes and businesses and caused firefighters to ...
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia.The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [2] and possibly exacerbated by human-caused climate change.
Wildfire smoke from Canada captivated the East Coast this week, but data shows that much of the United States has been dealing with smoke since early May. Maps: Canadian wildfire smoke has covered ...