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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.
2023 Canadian wildfires
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 ...
In Western Canada, the Parker Lake Fire in northeastern British Columbia more than tripled in size over the weekend to 13,000 acres and is now on the doorstep of the small community of Fort Nelson.
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. It was British Columbia's largest recorded wildfire until it was surpassed in size by the ...
Powell River, British Columbia
Area. • Total. 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) Burns Bog is an ombrotrophic peat bog located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest raised peat bog and the largest undeveloped urban land mass on the West Coast of the Americas. [1] Burns Bog was originally 4,000–4,900 hectares (9,900–12,100 acres) before development.
Chinchaga fire. The Chinchaga fire, also known as the Wisp fire, Chinchaga River fire and Fire 19, [1] was a forest fire that burned in northern British Columbia and Alberta in the summer and early fall of 1950. With a final size of between 1,400,000 and 1,700,000 hectares (3,500,000 and 4,200,000 acres), it is the single largest recorded fire ...