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.
List
| Fire | Location | Province | Date | Deaths | Damage | Buildings | Area in ha/acre | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1825 Miramichi fire | Northern New Brunswick |  New Brunswick | Oct 1825 | 160–300 | 1–2 million ha (2.5–4.9 million acres) | [1] | ||
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | May 1845 | 20 | $1 million | 100+ | [2] | |
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Jun 1845 | 40 | $1.5 million | 1,200 | [2] | |
| Great Fire of 1846 | St. John's | Colony of Newfoundland | Jun 1846 | 3 | £888,356 | 600 ha (1,500 acres) | ||
| Fire in Toronto | Toronto | Province of Canada (Upper Canada) | Apr 1849 | $500,000 | [2] | |||
| Fire in Montreal | Montreal | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Jun 1850 | 0 | $500,000 | 100 | [2] | |
| Great Fire of 1852 | Montreal | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Jul 1852 | 0 | $5 million | 1,200[2] | ||
| Great Fire of Quebec City | Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Oct 1866 | $3 million | 2,500 | [2] | ||
| Saguenay Fire | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec | Quebec | May 1870 | 7 | 15,000 ha (37,000 acres) | |||
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Quebec | May 1876 | $800,000 | 700 | [2] | ||
| Fire in Saint-Jean | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Quebec | Jun 1876 | $2.5 million | [2] | |||
| Fire in Saint-Hyacinthe | Saint-Hyacinthe | Quebec | Sep 1876 | $1.25 million | 583 | [2] | ||
| Great Fire of Saint John | Saint John | .svg.png){kind=small} New Brunswick | Jun 1877 | 19 | $28 million | 1,612 | [3] | |
| Fire in Hamilton | Hamilton | Ontario | Aug 1879 | $500,000 | [2] | |||
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Quebec | Jun 1881 | $2 million | 800 | [2] | ||
| Fire in Toronto | Toronto | Ontario | Jan 1885 | $700,000 | [2] | |||
| Great Vancouver Fire | Vancouver | British Columbia | Jun 1886 | 24–28[4] | $1.3 million | |||
| Calgary Fire of 1886 | Calgary | North-West Territories (now Alberta) | Nov 1886 | 0 | $103,200 | |||
| Great Fire of 1892 | St. John's | .svg.png){kind=small} Colony of Newfoundland | Jul 1892 | $13 million | ||||
| Simpson's fire in Toronto | Toronto | Ontario | Jan 1895 | $600,000 | [2] | |||
| Fire in Windsor | Windsor |  Nova Scotia | Oct 1897 | $4 million | [2] | |||
| Fire in New Westminster | New Westminster | British Columbia | Sep 1898 | $2 million | [2] | |||
| Warehouse fire in Montreal | Montreal | Quebec | Dec 1898 | $8 million | [2] | |||
| Warehouse fire in Montreal | Montreal | Quebec | Jan 1900 | $2.5 million | [2] | |||
| 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire | Hull | Quebec | Apr 1900 | 7 | $7.5 million | [2] | ||
| Fire in Sydney | Sydney | Nova Scotia | Oct 1901 | $500,000 | 60+ | [2] | ||
| Fire in Ottawa | Ottawa | Ontario | May 1903 | $500,000 | 300+ | [2] | ||
| Fire in Saint-Hyacinthe | Saint-Hyacinthe | Quebec | May 1903 | $500,000 | 400+ | [2] | ||
| Great Toronto Fire | Toronto | Ontario | Apr 1904 | $13 million | [2] | |||
| Fire in Trois-Rivières | Trois-Rivières | Quebec | Jun 1908 | $2 million | [2] | |||
| Fire in Fernie | Fernie | British Columbia | Aug 1908 | $4 million | [2] | |||
| Great Porcupine Fire | Timmins | Ontario | Jul 1911 | 73–200 | 199,915 ha (494,000 acres) | |||
| Matheson Fire | Black River-Matheson | Ontario | Jul 1916 | 223[5]–244[6] | 49 townships[6] | 200,000 ha (490,000 acres) | [6] | |
| Great Fire of 1919 | Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta |  Alberta Saskatchewan | May 1919 | 11[7] | 2 million ha (4.9 million acres) | [8] | ||
| Great Fire of 1922 | Timiskaming District | Ontario | Oct 1922 | 43 | $2 million | 168,000 ha (420,000 acres) | ||
| Knights of Columbus Hostel fire | St. John's | .svg.png){kind=small} Dominion of Newfoundland | Dec 1942 | 99 | [9] | |||
| Mississagi Fire of 1948 | Mississagi River | Ontario | May– Jul 1948 | 1[10] | 280,000 ha (690,000 acres) | [6] | ||
| Chinchaga fire | Northern British Columbia and Alberta | .svg.png){kind=small} Alberta British Columbia | Jun– Oct 1950 | 0 | 1.4 to 1.7 million ha (3.5 to 4.2 million acres) | |||
| Notre-Dame-du-Lac seniors' home fire | Notre-Dame-du-Lac |  Quebec | Dec 1969 | 40 | [11] | |||
| Opémiska Community Hall fire | Chapais | Quebec | Jan 1980 | 48 | [12] | |||
| Manitoba wildfires |  Manitoba | May, Jul– Aug 1989 | 100 homes | 2.5 million ha (6.2 million acres) | [6][13][14] | |||
| Hagersville Tire Fire | Hagersville, Ontario |  Ontario | Feb 1990 | 0 | 0 | Unknown | 7.3 ha (18 acres) | |
| 2001 Chisholm Wildfire | Chisholm | Alberta | May 2001 | 60+ | 116,000 ha (290,000 acres) | [6] | ||
| McLure fire | North Thompson River |  British Columbia | Jul– Aug 2003 | 0 | $31.9 million[15] | 81 | 26,420 ha (65,300 acres) | [15] |
| Okanagan Mountain Park Fire | Central Okanagan | British Columbia | Aug 2003 | 0 | $33.8 Million[16] | 239 | 25,912 ha (64,030 acres) | |
| West Kelowna wildfires | West Kelowna | British Columbia | Jul 2009 | 0 | $403 million[17] | 4 | 9,877 ha (24,410 acres) | |
| May 2010 Quebec wildfires | La Tuque | Quebec | May 2010 | 0 | 90,000 ha (220,000 acres) | |||
| 2011 Slave Lake Wildfire | Slave Lake | Alberta | May 2011 | 1 | $750 million[18] | 433 | 4,700 ha (12,000 acres) | [19] |
| Richardson Fire | Richardson Backcountry | Alberta | May–Sep 2011 | 0 | $350 to $450 million[20] | 700,000 ha (1,700,000 acres) | ||
| Timmins Fire 9 | Timmins | Ontario | May–Nov 2012 | 0 | 39,540 ha (97,700 acres)[21] | |||
| L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire | L'Isle-Verte | Quebec | Dec 2014 | 32 | [22] | |||
| 2014 Northwest Territories fires |  Northwest Territories | summer 2014 | 0 | $56.1 million[23] | 3.4 million ha (8.4 million acres)[23] | [24] | ||
| 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire | Northern Alberta (incl. Fort McMurray) and Saskatchewan | Alberta Saskatchewan | May– Jul 2016 | 2[25] | $9.9 billion (direct and indirect costs)[26][27][28] | 3,244 | 589,552 ha (1,456,810 acres) | [29] |
| 2017 British Columbia wildfires | Central and South Interior, and Alberta | Alberta British Columbia | Jul– Sep 2017 | 0 | $586 million[30] | 305+[31] | 1,216,053 ha (3,004,930 acres)[32] | [30] |
| 2017 Alberta fires | Alberta Saskatchewan | summer 2017 | 1[33] | 14+[33] | [34] | |||
| North Bay 69 | Temagami | Ontario | Jul– Aug 2018 | 0 | 221 ha (550 acres) | |||
| 2018 Parry Sound forest fire | Parry Sound District | Ontario | Jul– Oct 2018 | 0 | 11,362.5 ha (28,077 acres) | |||
| 2018 British Columbia wildfires | British Columbia | summer 2018 | 50+ [35] | 1,298,454 ha (3,208,550 acres) | [36] | |||
| 2019 Alberta wildfires | Northwestern and Central Alberta | Alberta | Mar–Dec 2019 | 16[37] | 883,414 ha (2,182,960 acres)[38] | [38] | ||
| Lytton wildfire | Lytton | British Columbia | Jun 2021 | 2 | $78 million | |||
| 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires | Nova Scotia | summer 2023 | 0 | 250+ | 24,128 ha (59,620 acres) | |||
| 2023 Alberta wildfires | Alberta | 2023 | 1.22 million ha (3.0 million acres) | |||||
| 2024 Canada wildfires | Alberta British Columbia |
2024 | ||||||
| 2025 Canadian wildfires | Manitoba Ontario Saskatchewan Alberta Quebec Newfoundland and Labrador New Brunswick Nova Scotia |
2025 | 2 | 631+ | 8.78 million ha (21.7 million acres) | |||
| 2026 Canadian wildfires | Alberta British Columbia Yukon Manitoba Saskatchewan New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Quebec Ontario Northwest Territories Nova Scotia |
2026 | 4 | 12+ | 2.40 million ha (5.9 million acres) | |||
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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 "Omineca Herald". library.ubc.ca. December 19, 1908. p. 3.
- ↑ "The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1877". Retrieved December 17, 2008.
- ↑ "Great Vancouver Fire Stories" (PDF). MOV. Museum of Vancouver. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ↑ "The Great Fire of 1916" (PDF). Ontario Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 26, 2005.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "List: Canada's most destructive wildfires". CTVNews. May 16, 2011. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
- ↑ "Largest Brush and Forest Fires in Recorded History". March 15, 2018.
- ↑ Murphy, Peter J., Cordy Tymstra, and Merle Massie. 2015. "The Great Fire of 1919: People and a Shared Firestorm in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada." Forest History Today 2015 (Spring/Fall): 22–30.
- ↑ "CBC News". www.upi.com. December 12, 2014.
- ↑ Campbell, Gord. "The Mississagi Fire, 1948, A Historical Account". images.ourontario.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
- ↑ "Daily Colonist". archive.org. January 16, 1971. p. 1.
- ↑ "UPI News". www.upi.com. May 20, 1981.
- ↑ Manitoba Conservation & Climate. "Manitoba Wildfires : 1914 – 2020". Province of Manitoba. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
- ↑ Hirsch, Kelvin G. (April 1, 1991). "A chronological overview of the 1989 fire season in Manitoba". The Forestry Chronicle. 67 (4): 358–365. doi:10.5558/tfc67358-4. ISSN 0015-7546.
- 1 2 "The McLure Fire" (PDF). The University of Lethbridge. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Fire Review Summary for Okanagan Mountain Fire (K50628)" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Government of British Columbia. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Review of the 2009 Fire Season" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Ministry of Forests and Range. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Slave Lake fires 2nd costliest insured disaster". CTV News. July 5, 2011. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
- ↑ "Slave Lake fire: How it happened". Postmedia Network Inc. Edmonton Journal. May 15, 2011. Retrieved May 8, 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.
- ↑ Snyder, Wayne (July 19, 2022). "'Timmins 9' forest fire still haunts residents". TimminsToday.com. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ↑ "Gazette". montrealgazette.com. January 21, 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 May 8, 2016.
- ↑ Weber, Bob (January 17, 2017). "Costs of Alberta wildfire reach $9.5 billion: Study". BNN Canada. Archived from the original on January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Fort McMurray 2016 Wildfire - Economic Impact" (PDF). Statistics Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
- ↑ Romero, Diego (July 7, 2016). "Fort McMurray wildfires damage cost $3.85 billion". CTV. Edmonton. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 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.
- 1 2 "Wildfire Season Summary - Province of British Columbia".
- ↑ "B.C. wildfire status Wednesday: Arson suspected in 2 wildfires". Global News. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
- ↑ "B.C. wildfires set record for total land burned over". Vancouver Sun. August 16, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
- 1 2 "Wildfires take tragic toll with death of firefighter, loss of homes in rural Alberta". Calgary Herald. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ↑ "Alberta wildfires 2017: Current status of wildfires around the province". Global News. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ↑ "British Columbia wildfire season now second worst in province's history". August 26, 2018.
- ↑ "Current Statistics".
- ↑ Derworiz, Colette (May 31, 2019). "10,000 people forced out, 16 homes destroyed by Alberta wildfires". Global News. The Canadian Press. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- 1 2 "Alberta Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Sitrep". Alberta Wildfire. Government of Alberta. June 20, 2019. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
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