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Compared to the five-year average, Saskatchewan experienced more wildfires than expected, and fires were threatening power and telecommunications infrastructure in early July. [64] Smoke from fires in the west began causing air quality advisories in most of the province. [ 65 ]
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 ]
Wildfires North and Central Alberta: Prairies 0 Unknown A series of around 1,000 wildfires took place mostly across Northern Alberta burning over 883,000 hectares of forest. The most prominent of the fires being the ones affecting High Level. [38] [39] 2019 May – 2019 August: 2019 Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick floods: Flood
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]
Real time maps from California Fire Department show how the blaze has spread to over 3,000 acres of land – an area twice the size of Central Park Malibu fire map: 3,000 acres of California ...
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.
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 ...
The current criteria, established in 1994, is "very outdated," Claudine Kavanaugh, director of the FDA's Human Food Program's Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling, said at the news conference.