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
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 1919	Saskatchewan and Alberta	1919	11[5]			2,000,000 hectares (4,900,000 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
McLure fire	North Thompson River, British Columbia	2003	0	$31.9 Million[6]	81	26,420 hectares (65,300 acres)	3,800 people evacuated[6]
Okanagan Mountain Park Fire	Central Okanagan, British Columbia	2003	0	$33.8 Million[7]	239	25,912 hectares (64,030 acres)
West Kelowna wildfires	West Kelowna, British Columbia	2009	0	$403 million[8]	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[9]	433	4,700 hectares (12,000 acres)	One-third of town destroyed.[10]
Richardson Fire	Alberta	2011	0	$350 to $450 million[11]		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[12]		3,400,000 ha (8,400,000 acres)[12]	Said to have been the largest wildfires in 30 years in the Northwest Territories[13] Note: Damage is the cost of fire fighting
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire	Alberta, Saskatchewan	2016	2 (indirect)[14]	$9.9 billion (direct and indirect costs)[15][16][17]	3,244	589,552 hectares (1,456,810 acres)	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]
North Bay 69	Temagami, Ontario	2018	0			221 hectares (550 acres)
2018 Parry Sound forest fire	Parry Sound District, Ontario	2018	0			11,362.5 hectares (28,077 acres)
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 2017 wildfire season. [27]
2019 Alberta wildfires	Northwestern and Central Alberta	2019			16[28]	883,414 hectares (2,182,960 acres)[29]	Both lightning and human activity have been contributed to the cause, as well several are under investigation.[29] (*as of October 18, 2019)

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See also

• List of Canadian disasters by death toll
• List of fires in British Columbia
• List of wildfires

References

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4. Heritage Foundation of Canada
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19. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-history/wildfire-season-summary
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22. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-history/wildfire-season-summary
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27. http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Statistics.asp
28. 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.
29. "Alberta Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Sitrep (October 18, 2019 @ 10:00hrs)". Alberta Wildfire. Government of Alberta. June 20, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2019.