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Fire bans began in Alberta on February 20. [13] Beginning in mid-May, wildfires began to encroach on Fort McMurray, which had been devastated by fire in 2016. [14] [15] On the evening of May 10, the wildfire designated MWF017 was 16 km southeast of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo had issued an evacuation alert. [16]
More than 250 wildland urban interface personnel from across Alberta arrived on July 27 and hundreds of firefighters from Canada, Australia, and South Africa arrived the following day to help battle the wildfire. [22] The Alberta government provided a one-time payment of $1,250 per adult and $500 per children under 18 for Jasper residents to ...
The 2019 Alberta wildfires have been described by NASA as part of an extreme fire season in the province. [5] In 2019 there were a total of 803,393.32 hectares (1,985,228 acres), [1] [6] [7] [8] which is over 3.5 times more land area burned than in the five-year average burned. [9]
There are currently 176 wildfires burning in Alberta, more than 50 of which are out of control. Around 10 of those blazes are close to the border with British Columbia, where dozens of fires are ...
A fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 people to flee roared into the near-deserted town of Jasper overnight with flames higher than treetops, devastating up to ...
Wildfires burning uncontrolled across the region include 433 in British Columbia and 176 in Alberta, more than a dozen of them in the area of Fort McMurray, an oil sands hub. The pipeline, which ...
Alberta, covered in wildfire smoke (May 2023) In May, Alberta was the province most impacted by wildfires. [20] [49] Most large wildfires in Alberta in 2023 were triggered by lightning. [31] On May 6, the province of Alberta declared a provincial state of emergency. [50] [51] By May 7, 108 active fires were burning in the province. [52]
Alberta is in the grip of 158 wildfire events of which 55 are out of contr. Wildfires raging through the northern part of Canada's Alberta have forced evacuations of three communities, a ...