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The fire burned around 23,015 hectares (56,871 acres) and between 30 and 40 structures were destroyed. [88] [89] The response to the fire included widespread evacuation orders of the surrounding area, displacing around 5000 people. [90] This wildfire was the largest recorded in the history of Nova Scotia. [84] [91]
Wildfire modeling is concerned with numerical simulation of wildfires to comprehend and predict fire behavior. [1] [2] Wildfire modeling aims to aid wildfire suppression, increase the safety of firefighters and the public, and minimize damage. Wildfire modeling can also aid in protecting ecosystems, watersheds, and air quality.
The Jasper fire is estimated to have cost insurance companies over $880 million, making it the ninth-most expensive disaster for insurance companies in Canadian history. [69] The federal and provincial governments announced on August 1 that they would spend $57 million on new firefighting equipment over five years.
In 1989, at least 18,254,317 acres were burned in the country, according to fire statistics from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. And the smoke from the wildfires, ...
The Forest fire weather index (FWI) (French: indice forêt météo, IFM) is an estimation of the risk of wildfire computed by Météo France and the Meteorological Service of Canada. It was introduced in France in 1992 but is based on a Canadian empirical model developed and widely used since 1976.
Canadian firefighters prevented wildfires from destroying more structures in a scenic region of British Columbia and stepped up their defense of a territorial capital threatened by flames ...
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is a free web mapping platform offered by NASA as part of its Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It displays active fire locations in near real-time overlaid on a map. [1] [2]
In recent months, the jet stream’s patterns trapped and stalled a ridge of high pressure over northern Canada, which caused a heat wave and primed the landscape for the wildfires that later sent ...