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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.
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
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]
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 ...
The wildfire burning near Fort McMurray on May 1, 2016. On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes. [ 14 ][ 7 ] Firefighters were assisted by personnel ...
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.
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]
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 ...