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

FireLocationProvinceDateDeathsDamageBuildingsArea in ha/acre1825 Miramichi fire Northern New Brunswick New Brunswick Oct 1825 160–300 Fire in Quebec City Quebec City Province of Canada (Quebec) May 1845 20 $1 million 100+ Fire in Quebec City Quebec City Province of Canada (Quebec) Jun 1845 40 $1.5 million 1,200 Great Fire of 1846 St. John's Colony of Newfoundland Jun 1846 3 £888,356 Fire in Toronto Toronto Province of Canada (Upper Canada) Apr 1849 $500,000 Fire in Montreal Montreal Province of Canada (Quebec) Jun 1850 0 $500,000 100 Great Fire of 1852 Montreal Province of Canada (Quebec) Jul1852 0 $5 million 1,200 Great Fire of Quebec City Quebec City Province of Canada (Quebec) Oct 1866 $3 million 2,500 Saguenay Fire Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec May 1870 7 Fire in Quebec City Quebec City May 1876 $800,000 700 Fire in Saint-Jean Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Jun 1876 $2.5 million Fire in Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Hyacinthe Sep 1876 $1.25 million 583 Great Fire of Saint John Saint John Jun 1877 19 $28 million 1,612 Fire in Hamilton Hamilton Aug 1879 $500,000 Fire in Quebec City Quebec City Jun 1881 $2 million 800 Fire in Toronto Toronto Jan 1885 $700,000 Great Vancouver Fire Vancouver Jun 1886 24–28$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 Colony of Newfoundland Jul1892 $13 million Simpson's fire in Toronto Toronto Jan 1895 $600,000 Fire in Windsor Windsor Oct 1897 $4 million Fire in New Westminster New Westminster Sep 1898 $2 million Warehouse fire in Montreal Montreal Dec 1898 $8 million Warehouse fire in Montreal Montreal Jan 1900 $2.5 million 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire Hull Apr 1900 7 $7.5 million Fire in Sydney Sydney Oct 1901 $500,000 60+ Fire in Ottawa Ottawa May 1903 $500,000 300+ Fire in Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Hyacinthe May 1903 $500,000 400+ Great Toronto Fire Toronto Apr 1904 $13 million Fire in Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières Jun 1908 $2 million Fire in Fernie Fernie Aug 1908 $4 million Great Porcupine Fire Timmins Jul1911 73–200 Matheson Fire Black River-Matheson Jul1916 223–244 49 townships Great Fire of 1919 Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta May 1919 11 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.Great Fire of 1922 Timiskaming District Oct 1922 43 $2 million Knights of Columbus Hostel fire St. John's Dec 1942 99 Mississagi Fire of 1948 Mississagi River May–Jul 1948 1 Chinchaga fire Northern British Columbia and Alberta Jun–Oct 1950 0 Notre-Dame-du-Lac seniors' home fire Notre-Dame-du-Lac Dec 1969 40 Opémiska Community Hall fire Chapais Jan 1980 48 Manitoba wildfires May, Jul–Aug 1989 100 homes Hagersville Tire Fire Hagersville, Ontario Feb 1990 0 0 Unknown 2001 Chisholm Wildfire Chisholm May 2001 60+ McLure fire North Thompson River Jul–Aug 2003 0 $31.9 million 81 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire Central Okanagan Aug 2003 0 $33.8 Million 239 West Kelowna wildfires West Kelowna Jul2009 0 $403 million 4 May 2010 Quebec wildfires La Tuque May 2010 0 2011 Slave Lake Wildfire Slave Lake May 2011 1 $750 million 433 Richardson Fire Richardson Backcountry May–Sep 2011 0 $350 to $450 million Timmins Fire 9Timmins May–Nov 2012 0 L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire L'Isle-Verte Dec 2014 32 2014 Northwest Territories fires summer 2014 0 $56.1 million2014 N.W.T. fire season report: What you need to know Worst forest fires in 30 years cost N.W.T. $55M2016 Fort McMurray wildfire Northern Alberta (incl. Fort McMurray) and Saskatchewan May–Jul 2016 2 $9.9 billion (direct and indirect costs) 3,244 2017 British Columbia wildfires Central and South Interior, and Alberta Jul–Sep 2017 0 $586 million 305+ 2017 Alberta firessummer 2017 1 14+ North Bay 69 Temagami Jul–Aug 2018 0 2018 Parry Sound forest fire Parry Sound District Jul–Oct 2018 0 2018 British Columbia wildfires summer 2018 50+ 2019 Alberta wildfires Northwestern and Central Alberta Mar–Dec 2019 16 Lytton wildfire Lytton Jun 2021 2 $78 million 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires summer 2023 0 250+ 2023 Alberta wildfires 2023 2024 Canada wildfires20242025 Canadian wildfires 2025 2 631+ 2026 Canadian wildfires 2026 4 12+

See also List of Canadian disasters by death toll List of fires in British Columbia List of fires List of wildfires List of town and city fires

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