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When the fire season officially ended on October 31, the province had seen 775,000 hectares burned, compared to 2.2 million in 2023. [13] Jasper fire topped the list of Canada’s 10 most impactful weather stories of 2024. [31]
As of October 6, 6,551 fires had burned 184,961 square kilometres (71,414 sq mi), [2] about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada, [8] and more than six times the long-term average of 27,300 square kilometres (10,541 sq mi) for that time of the year. [1] As of mid-October, the total area burnt was more than 2.5 times the previous record. [9]
There have been 3,055 fires so far this year in Canada, destroying more than 30,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Switzerland. The fires caused air quality to plummet across large parts ...
Province of Canada (Upper Canada) Apr 1849: $500,000 [2] Fire in Montreal: Montreal: Province of Canada : Jun 1850: 0: $500,000: 100 [2] Great Fire of 1852: Montreal: Province of Canada : Jul 1852: 0: $5 million: 1,200 [2] Nearly half of city's housing destroyed. Great Fire of Quebec City: Quebec City: Province of Canada : Oct 1866: $3 million ...
A large wildfire burned through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada and its surrounding area from May 14 to 16, 2011.The conflagration, which originated 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) outside of town as a forest fire, was quickly pushed past fire barriers designed to protect the town by 100-kilometre-per-hour (60 mph) winds.
It finally was put out by cooler weather and rain in late October, as it approached Keg River in the Whispering River area (hence one of its names "Whisp Fire"). [ citation needed ] Most of the burned area was on the Alberta side of the inter-provincial border, with only 90,000 hectares (220,000 acres) burned on the British Columbia side. [ 8 ]
On Saturday, for example, there were red flag warnings in place in the New York metropolitan area, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts as strong winds, relatively low humidity and dry ...
The province of Alberta had 306 wildfires early in the season, which was 100 wildfires above historic averages and was the first indicator of an early and above normal forest fire season. [19] Higher than normal winter and early spring temperatures in Alberta, as well as low precipitation averages across all the Western Canadian provinces was ...