List of fires in Canada
This is a list of fires in Canada. Numbers for buildings only include those destroyed, and area is given in hectares and is converted to acres.
Article | Location | Year | Deaths | Damage | Buildings | Area in ha/a | Notes |
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1825 Miramichi fire | Northern New Brunswick | 1825 | 160 to 300 | 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 hectares (2,500,000 to 4,900,000 acres)[1] | A series of wildfires that burned in October 1825 | ||
Great Fire of 1846 | St. John's, Newfoundland (Dominion of Newfoundland) | 1846 | 3 | £888,356 | 600 hectares (1,500 acres) | ||
Great Fire of 1852 | Montreal (United Province of Canada) | 1852 | 0 | Nearly half of city's housing destroyed | |||
Saguenay Fire | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec | 1870 | 7 | 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) | Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything. | ||
Great Fire of 1892 | St. John's, Newfoundland, (Dominion of Newfoundland) | 1892 | $13,000,000 | ||||
1877 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick | Saint John, New Brunswick | 1877 | 19 | $28,000,000[2] | |||
Great Vancouver Fire | Vancouver, British Columbia | 1886 | 24 to 28[3] | $1,300,000 | |||
Calgary Fire of 1886 | Calgary | 1886 | 0 | $103,200 | |||
1900 Hull–Ottawa fire | Hull, Quebec | 1900 | 7 | $956,962.77 | |||
Great Toronto Fire | Toronto | 1904 | 0 | $10,350,000 | 180 hectares (440 acres) | ||
Great Porcupine Fire | Timmins, Ontario | 1911 | 73 to 200 | 199,915 hectares (494,000 acres) | |||
Matheson Fire | Black River-Matheson, Ontario | 1916 | 223[4] | 200,000 hectares (490,000 acres) | |||
Great Fire of 1922 | Timiskaming District, Ontario | 1922 | 43 | $2,000,000 | 168,000 hectares (420,000 acres) | ||
Chinchaga fire | Northern British Columbia and Alberta | 1950 | 0 | 1,400,000 to 1,700,000 hectares (3,500,000 to 4,200,000 acres) | Largest recorded single fire in North American history | ||
Opemiska Community Hall fire | Chapais, Quebec | 1980 | 48 | ||||
McLure fire | North Thompson River, British Columbia | 2003 | 0 | $31.9 Million[5] | 81 | 26,420 hectares (65,300 acres) | 3,800 people evacuated[5] |
Okanagan Mountain Park Fire | Central Okanagan, British Columbia | 2003 | 0 | $33.8 Million[6] | 239 | 25,912 hectares (64,030 acres) | |
West Kelowna wildfires | West Kelowna, British Columbia | 2009 | 0 | $403 million[7] | 4 | 9,877 hectares (24,410 acres) | Three separate wildfires |
May 2010 Quebec wildfires | La Tuque, Quebec | 2010 | 0 | 90,000 hectares (220,000 acres) | |||
2011 Slave Lake Wildfire | Slave Lake | 2011 | 1 (helicopter crash) | CAD $750 million[8] | 433 | 4,700 hectares (12,000 acres) | One-third of town destroyed.[9] |
Richardson Fire | Alberta | 2011 | 0 | $350 to $450 million[10] | 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) | largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. | |
2014 Northwest Territories fires | Northwest Territories | 2014 | 0 | $56.1 million[11] | 3,400,000 ha (8,400,000 acres)[11] | Said to have been the largest wildfires in 30 years in the Northwest Territories[12] Note: Damage is the cost of fire fighting | |
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire | Alberta, Saskatchewan | 2016 | 2 (indirect, car accident)[13] | $3.58 billion[14] | 3,065[15][16] | 589,552 hectares (1,456,810 acres)[17] | Largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.[18] Costliest disaster in Canadian history, cost of CAD$3.58 billion in July, estimate up to $9 billion. |
2017 British Columbia wildfires | Central and South Interior, British Columbia, Alberta | 2017 | 0 | $586 million [19] | 305+[20] | 1,216,053 hectares (3,004,930 acres)[21] | Estimated 65,000 [22] evacuated. Largest single wildfire in BC Wildfire history |
2017 Alberta fires | Alberta, Saskatchewan | 2017 | 1[23] | 14+[24] | Fires possibly caused by power lines downed in a storm.[25] | ||
2018 British Columbia wildfires | British Columbia | 2018 | 50+ [26] | 1,298,454 hectares (3,208,550 acres) | Initial estimates put 2018 as the largest total burn-area in any British Columbia wildfire season, surpassing the historic 2017 wildfire season. [27] |
See also
References
- ↑ "Great Miramichi Fire: The largest fire ever in eastern North America". GNB. Archived from the original on October 13, 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ↑ "The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1877". Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ↑ "Great Vancouver Fire Stories" (PDF). MOV. Museum of Vancouver. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Heritage Foundation of Canada
- 1 2 "The McLure Fire" (PDF). The University of Lethbridge. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "Fire Review Summary for Okanagan Mountain Fire (K50628)" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ "Review of the 2009 Fire Season" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Ministry of Forests and Range. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ "Slave Lake fires 2nd costliest insured disaster". CTV News. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
- ↑ "Slave Lake fire: How it happened". Postmedia Network Inc. Edmonton Journal. May 15, 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ "Canadian Natural Resources Limited Provides a Further Update on the Impact of Alberta Forest Fires" (Press release). Marketwire. May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- 1 2 2014 N.W.T. fire season report: What you need to know
- ↑ Worst forest fires in 30 years cost N.W.T. $55M
- ↑ "2 die in fiery crash on Highway 881 south of Fort McMurray". CBC/Radio-Canada. CBC News Edmonton. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Romero, Diego (July 7, 2016). "Fort McMurray wildfires damage cost $3.58 billion". CTV Edmonton. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ↑ Ramsay, Caley; Shum, David (May 9, 2016). "'Ocean of fire' destroys 2,400 structures but 85% of Fort McMurray still stands". Global News. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ↑ Johnston, Scott (May 17, 2016). "UPDATED – Explosions damage and destroy Fort McMurray homes". Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Fort McMurray Area Update". Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Government of Alberta. July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ↑ Parsons, Paige (May 3, 2016). "Thousands flee from Fort McMurray wildfire in the largest fire evacuation in Alberta's history". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ↑ https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-history/wildfire-season-summary
- ↑ "B.C. wildfire status Wednesday: Arson suspected in 2 wildfires". Global News. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
- ↑ "B.C. wildfires set record for total land burned over". Vancouver Sun. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
- ↑ https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-history/wildfire-season-summary
- ↑ "Wildfires take tragic toll with death of firefighter, loss of homes in rural Alberta". Calgary Herald. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "Wildfires take tragic toll with death of firefighter, loss of homes in rural Alberta". Calgary Herald. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "Alberta wildfires 2017: Current status of wildfires around the province". Global News. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/british-columbia-wildfire-season-now-second-worst-in-province-s-history-1.4068551
- ↑ http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Statistics.asp
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