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The fire covered 14,300 hectares, but on July 26 the evacuation order was lifted. [42] Wildfire smoke fills the Slocan Valley on July 27. The village of Slocan, visible at the bottom of the lake, was evacuated. A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake.
Wildfires in Saskatchewan (June 2023) Like other regions, Saskatchewan had a dry spring, leading to increased risk for wildfires. [ 108 ] By May 25, the province had seen 187 fires; the five-year average for that point in the season is 111. [ 92 ]
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 ...
As for the U.S., a July 10 count from the National Interagency Fire Center measures 25,630 wildfires so far this year which have burned 731,382 acres across the country. These counts are below the ...
June’s record-breaking heatwave was the final ingredient needed for explosive wildfire growth. Fire experts say things could still get much worse. Map: Heat and drought drive Western wildfires
Smoke around the Treasure Valley and across the Pacific Northwest is coming from multiple fires. These sources show where.
[10] [51] The fire continued to grow, from 285,000 ha (700,000 acres) on May 16 to 504,443 ha (1,246,510 acres) on May 21 and even spread across 741 ha (1,830 acres) in Saskatchewan. [52] While the fire moved away from Fort McMurray, two explosions and poor air quality continued to prevent residents and rebuilding crews from returning to the ...
The fire destroyed roughly one-third of Slave Lake and cost $1.8 billion. 2011: 4,011,709 acres (1,623,481 ha) 2011 Texas wildfires: Texas: Wildfires began in November 2010 and continued to rage due to a severe drought that lasted 271 months. 47.3% of all acreage burned in the United States in 2011 was burned in Texas.