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Alberta, covered in wildfire smoke (May 2023) In May, Alberta was the province most impacted by wildfires. [20] [49] Most large wildfires in Alberta in 2023 were triggered by lightning. [31] On May 6, the province of Alberta declared a provincial state of emergency. [50] [51] By May 7, 108 active fires were burning in the province. [52]
The 2024 Jasper wildfire, also known as the Jasper Wildfire Complex, [3] was a wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. [4] Fires were initially spotted in the mountains both north and south of the resort town before both reached the town. [ 5 ]
Alberta is in the grip of 158 wildfire events of which 55 are out of contr ... "Fire activity is increasing today in southern B.C. due to the thunderstorms across the interior and into central ...
Fire bans began in Alberta on February 20. [13] Beginning in mid-May, wildfires began to encroach on Fort McMurray, which had been devastated by fire in 2016. [14] [15] On the evening of May 10, the wildfire designated MWF017 was 16 km southeast of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo had issued an evacuation alert. [16]
The hot weather has made fire danger in Alberta extreme. More than 2,500 wildland firefighters are working in the province , which reported that 19,576 had been evacuated from the areas where ...
Scattered rains and even smoke cover cooled air temperatures and helped efforts to fight wildfires in Alberta over the weekend, officials said Sunday, while a new fire in neighboring British ...
The 2019 Alberta wildfires have been described by NASA as part of an extreme fire season in the province. [5] In 2019 there were a total of 803,393.32 hectares (1,985,228 acres), [1] [6] [7] [8] which is over 3.5 times more land area burned than in the five-year average burned. [9]
In a notice late on Friday, the Alberta government said the wildfire danger is "extreme" in the Fort McMurray Forest Area and out of control at 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) in size. In 2016, a ...