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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.
2024 Canadian wildfires. The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires. The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that had extended into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2][3] By early May, large wildfires had ...
On July 22, 2024 at 7:00 pm MDT, Parks Canada reported a wildfire northeast of the town of Jasper. Shortly after, a second wildfire was reported south of the townsite. At 8:35 pm, the Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park issued 'preventive' evacuation alerts. [ 6 ] By 10:00 pm, an evacuation order was issued for the entire park, and ...
Hazy conditions blanketed parts of four U.S. states Monday, as smoke from wildfires in western Canada triggered air quality alerts and warnings. Canada has 146 active wildfires burning, including ...
There are 499 fires burning throughout the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Fire Center on Thursday. Some 230 fires are burning out-of-control and impacting provinces and territories ...
Canada is again battling an outbreak of deadly wildfires, with British Columbia forced to declare a state of emergency after a number of severe blazes broke out in the area surrounding Vancouver ...
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. 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. Said to have been the largest wildfires in 30 years in the Northwest Territories [24] Note: Damage is the cost of fire fighting.
According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, about 19 million acres of land had burned by that date, easily eclipsing the previous record of 17.5 million acres set in 1995. In July ...