Number of wildfires breach 5,000 mark in current season
Number of wildfires breach 5,000 mark in current season | Insurance Business Canada
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Number of wildfires breach 5,000 mark in current season
Year-to-date total of hectares burned revealed
Catastrophe & Flood
By
Terry Gangcuangco
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) has published year-to-date (YTD) figures for the current wildfire season, revealing that the running total of wildland fires has now breached the 5,000 mark.
Agency
2023 fires
2024 fires (YTD)
2023 area burned in hectares
2024 area burned in hectares (YTD)
British Columbia
1,981
1,561
1,810,238
1,022,607
Yukon
203
143
220,067
162,346
Alberta
908
1,107
2,020,648
706,716
Northwest Territories
277
167
2,968,848
1,581,215
Saskatchewan
385
504
251,969
784,678
Manitoba
280
275
101,272
250,179
Ontario
675
348
346,879
70,469
Quebec
674
443
4,233,931
247,761
Newfoundland and Labrador
97
71
21,881
72,420
New Brunswick
197
231
892
187
Nova Scotia
215
71
24,820
47
Prince Edward Island
7
0
8
0
Parks Canada
100
87
771,821
90,382
Total
5,999
5,008
12,773,275
4,989,008
CIFFC said the total amounts include fires from the 2023 fire season that are still listed as active.
The national wildfire agency went on to report: “Significant mobilization of resources through CIFFC is required to assist operations in the active agencies. Agency priorities need to be considered as a necessary measure to address the demand for shared resources among multiple active agencies. There is a moderate to high probability that drawing down resources from non-active agencies may pose a risk should existing conditions change.”
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