Category: B.C. Wildfire

State of Emergency to Be Lifted in Lytton, BC, Two Years After Fire Destroyed Town

June 15, 2023
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Almost two years after a wildfire ripped through Lytton, B.C., residents will soon be able to return to their properties. Council for the Village of Lytton has voted to allow the local state of emergency to expire on June 19. The emergency was declared June 30, 2021, after B.C.’s sweltering heat dome triggered a wildfire…

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Historic Drought Behind BC Wildfires, Salmon Die-off Could Continue, Experts Say

October 10, 2022
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Thousands of dead fish, a prolonged wildfire season and intense water shortages leading to ice rink closures are all symptoms of record-setting drought in parts of British Columbia. The Lower Mainland, Sunshine Coast and West Vancouver Island areas are experiencing Level 5 drought conditions—the most severe in the province’s classification scale, which the B.C. government’s…

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Massive B.C. Wildfire Causes $77 Million in Insurance Damage

September 24, 2021
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VANCOUVER—A wildfire that began on Aug. 2 in British Columbia and grew to more than 833 square kilometres is now estimated to have caused $77 million in insurance damage. The cost estimate from the Insurance Bureau of Canada says the so-called White Rock Lake fire destroyed 78 properties in the Central Okanagan. The bureau says…

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More Evacuations Ordered in B.C. as Wildfires Flare, Fanned by Strong Winds

July 22, 2021
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Residents in more areas of British Columbia have been forced from their homes indefinitely, this time by wildfires whipped up by strong winds in the southeastern part of the province. The Regional District of Central Kootenay has ordered more than 170 properties evacuated along a 10-kilometre strip of the Slocan River north of Appledale, near…

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