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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. [66] Smoke from fires in the west began causing air quality advisories in most of the province. [ 67 ]
As of October 6, 6,551 fires had burned 184,961 square kilometres (71,414 sq mi), [2] about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada, [8] and more than six times the long-term average of 27,300 square kilometres (10,541 sq mi) for that time of the year. [1] As of mid-October, the total area burnt was more than 2.5 times the previous record. [9]
Largest single wildfire in BC Wildfire history. 2017 Alberta fires Alberta, Saskatchewan Alberta Saskatchewan: summer 2017: 1 [33] 14+ [33] Fires possibly caused by power lines downed in a storm. [34] North Bay 69: Temagami Ontario: Jul– Aug 2018: 0: 221 hectares (550 acres) 2018 Parry Sound forest fire: Parry Sound District Ontario: Jul ...
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 ...
[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 ...
In 2002, the incidence of forest fires in Alberta increased to five times the ten-year average while in summer 2003, populated regions of interior British Columbia were stricken by drought-enhanced fires. Long-lasting impacts include soil degradation by wind erosion and deterioration of grasslands that could take decades and longer to recover.
NASA image of Saskatchewan and a portion of Manitoba. Dark to light rust coloured areas in the north are burn scars from forest fires. Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota.
Boreal Forest Region - This the largest forest region in Canada. It is located in the north and contains about one third of the world's circumpolar boreal forests . Coast Forest Region - Located on the west coast, this region almost entirely comprises coniferous trees including the Douglas-fir , Sitka spruce , western hemlock , and western red ...