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.
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| Article | Place | Year | Deaths | Damage | Buildings | Area in ha/a | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1825 Miramichi Fires | New Brunswick, Lower Canada | 1825 | 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 | Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec (United Province of Canada) | 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 | ||||
| The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick | Saint John, New Brunswick | 1877 | 19 | $28,000,000[2] | |||
| Great Vancouver Fire | Vancouver, B.C. | 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) | ||
| Matheson Fire | Black River-Matheson | 1916 | 223[4] | ||||
| 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 fire in North American history | ||
| Okanagan Mountain Park Fire | Central Okanagan, British Columbia | 2003 | 0 | $33.8 Million[5] | 239 | 25,912 hectares (64,030 acres) | |
| West Kelowna Wildfires | West Kelowna, British Columbia | 2009 | 0 | $403 million[6] | 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[7] | 433 | 4,700 hectares (12,000 acres) | One-third of town destroyed.[8] |
| Richardson Fire | Alberta | 2011 | 0 | 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) | largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. | ||
| 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire | Fort McMurray | 2016 | 2 (indirect, car accident)[9] |
2,400 | 355,000 hectares (880,000 acres)[10] | Largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.[11] |
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
- ^ "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.
- ^ "2 die in fiery crash on Highway 881 south of Fort McMurray". CBC/Radio-Canada. CBC News Edmonton. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ "Alberta Government May 16th Fort McMurray Wildfire Update".
- ^ 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.