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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.
2023 Canadian drought. Since the beginning of March 2023, most of Canada experienced a drought, which was severe across the Prairie provinces and unprecedented in British Columbia. Every province and territory was in drought simultaneously. [1] Common factors across Canada were a quick snow melt, sometimes due to a below-average snowpack, and ...
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]
The Puente Hills thrust fault system is the same overall fault network that produced the 1987 Whittier Narrows magnitude 5.9 earthquake, which killed eight people and caused some $358 million in ...
English: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2023], processed by Pierre Markuse Fire in Saskatchewan, Canada (Lat: 56.379, Lng: -107.972) - 12 June 2023 Image is about 35 kilometers wide
At least 10 tornadoes were reported in the afternoon and early evening hours of June 14, 2023 all across the southeastern portion of Alberta [59] [60] 2023 June 15 Carberry bus crash: Vehicle collision Near Carberry, Manitoba: Prairies and West Coast At least 15 TBD Crash on the Trans-Canada Highway [61] 2023 July 21-July 22 2023 Nova Scotia ...
McDougall Creek fire. Categories: 2023 disasters in Canada. 2020s wildfires in North America. 21st-century wildfires in Canada. 2023 wildfires. Hidden category: Category series navigation using skip-gaps parameter.
The McDougall Creek Fire was a wildfire in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada as part of the 2023 Canadian wildfires. It started near West Kelowna on August 15, 2023, and was discovered at 5:59 pm PDT. [1] The wildfire forced the evacuation of West Kelowna and parts of Kelowna. Overall, at least 35,000 people were under evacuation ...