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The Patry Creek fire to the north was burning out of control by July 23, covering 775 square kilometres (299 sq mi) and limiting access to Highway 77. [33] On July 24, the Dogtooth Forest Service Road fire destroyed 15 structures, including four homes in Golden .
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]
Over time the sulfur dioxide from the smoke has acidified the shallow ponds (< 1 hectare (2.5 acres) area and < 1 m (3 ft 3.4 in) depth) in the tundra dotting the area, down to a pH lower than 2. [3] Elevated concentrations of metals (aluminium, iron, zinc, nickel, manganese and cadmium) occur in these acidic ponds.
Location Province Date Deaths Damage Buildings Area in ha/a Comments 1825 Miramichi fire: Northern New Brunswick: New Brunswick: Oct 1825: 160 to 300: 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 hectares (2,500,000 to 4,900,000 acres) A series of wildfires. [1] Fire in Quebec City: Quebec City: Province of Canada : May 1845: 20: $1 million: 100+ [2] Fire in Quebec ...
The 2019 Alberta wildfires have been described by NASA as part of an extreme fire season in the province. [5] In 2019 there were a total of 803,393.32 hectares (1,985,228 acres), [1] [6] [7] [8] which is over 3.5 times more land area burned than in the five-year average burned. [9]
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.
2015 Canadian wildfires were a series of wildfires across Canada and Alaska in June 2015 which spread smoke across most of North America. Over two hundred fires were ablaze across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. [1] Tens of thousand of people had been evacuated and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned ...
By September 12, 158 fires were burning throughout the province. [5] A total of 12,161 square kilometres (1.2 million hectares) had burned by the end of the 2017 fire season, the largest total area burned in a fire season in recorded history (1.3% of BC total area). [6]