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 | Province | Date | data-sort-type="number" | Deaths! | data-sort-type="number" | Damage! | data-sort-type="number" | Buildings! | data-sort-type="number" | Area in ha/a! | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern New Brunswick | Oct 1825 | 160 to 300 | 1000000ha2000000ha | A series of wildfires.[1] | ||||||||
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | May 1845 | 20 | $1 million | 100+ | [2] | |||||
| Fire in Quebec City | Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Jun 1845 | 40 | $1.5 million | 1,200 | ||||||
| St. John's | Jun 1846 | 3 | £888,356 | 600ha | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Montreal | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Jul 1852 | 0 | $5 million | 1,200 | Nearly half of city's housing destroyed. | ||||||
| Quebec City | Province of Canada (Quebec) | Oct 1866 | $3 million | 2,500 | ||||||||
| Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec | May 1870 | 7 | 15000ha | Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything. | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Jun 1877 | 19 | $28 million | 1,612 | [3] | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| Jun 1886 | 24 to 28[4] | $1.3 million | ||||||||||
| North-West Territories (now Alberta) | Nov 1886 | 0 | $103,200 | |||||||||
| St. John's | Jul 1892 | $13 million | ||||||||||
| Simpson's fire in Toronto | Toronto | Jan 1895 | $600,000 | |||||||||
| Fire in Windsor | Windsor | Oct 1897 | $4 million | Most of the town destroyed. | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| Hull | Apr 1900 | 7 | $7.5 million | Destroyed 2/3 of Hull. | ||||||||
| 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+ | ||||||||
| Toronto | Apr 1904 | $13 million | ||||||||||
| Fire in Trois-Rivières | Trois-Rivières | Jun 1908 | $2 million | |||||||||
| Fire in Fernie | Aug 1908 | $4 million | Most of the town was destroyed. | |||||||||
| Timmins | Jul 1911 | 73 to 200 | 199915ha | |||||||||
| Jul 1916 | 223[5] to 244[6] | 49 townships | 200000ha | The worst fire on record in Ontario's history. Destroyed 49 townships, including the villages of Kelso, Val Gagné, and Iroquois Falls. | ||||||||
| Great Fire of 1919 | Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta | May 1919 | 11[7] | 2000000ha | The first major fire at the wildland-urban interface of the Prairie Provinces.[8] | |||||||
| Timiskaming District | Oct 1922 | 43 | $2 million | 168000ha | ||||||||
| St. John's | Dec 1942 | 99 | [9] | |||||||||
| Mississagi Fire of 1948 | Mississagi River | May– Jul 1948 | 1[10] | 280000ha | The fire destroyed land over a two-month period between Chapleau and Thessalon. | |||||||
| Alberta British Columbia | Jun– Oct 1950 | 0 | 1400000ha1700000ha | Largest recorded single fire in North American history. | ||||||||
| Notre-Dame-du-Lac seniors' home fire | Notre-Dame-du-Lac | Dec 1969 | 40 | [11] | ||||||||
| Chapais | Jan 1980 | 48 | [12] | |||||||||
| Manitoba wildfires | Manitoba | May, Jul– Aug 1989 | 100 homes | 2500000ha | Drought conditions in Manitoba caused over 1,200 fires to spring up throughout the province.[13] [14] | |||||||
| Hagersville, Ontario | Feb 1990 | 0 | 0 | Unknown | 7.3ha | Significant ecological damage caused by the melting of 12-14 million tires over 17 days. | ||||||
| Chisholm | May 2001 | 60+ | 116000ha | |||||||||
| North Thompson River | Jul– Aug 2003 | 0 | $31.9 million | 81 | 26420ha | 3,800 people evacuated[15] | ||||||
| Aug 2003 | 0 | $33.8 Million[16] | 239 | 25912ha | ||||||||
| Jul 2009 | 0 | $403 million[17] | 4 | 9877ha | Three separate wildfires. | |||||||
| May 2010 | 0 | 90000ha | ||||||||||
| May 2011 | 1 (helicopter crash) | $750 million[18] | 433 | 4700ha | One-third of town destroyed.[19] | |||||||
| Richardson Backcountry | May–Sep 2011 | 0 | $350 to $450 million[20] | 700000ha | largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. | |||||||
| Timmins Fire 9 | Timmins | May–Nov 2012 | 0 | 39540ha[21] | Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. | |||||||
| L'Isle-Verte | Dec 2014 | 32 | [22] | |||||||||
| Northwest Territories | summer 2014 | 0 | $56.1 million[23] | 3400000ha | Said to have been the largest wildfires in 30 years in the Northwest Territories[24] Note: Damage is the cost of fire fighting. | |||||||
| Northern Alberta (incl. Fort McMurray) and Saskatchewan | May– Jul 2016 | 2 (indirect)[25] | $9.9 billion (direct and indirect costs)[26] [27] [28] | 3,244 | 589552ha | Largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.[29] Costliest disaster in Canadian history, cost of $3.58 billion in July, estimate up to $9 billion. | ||||||
| Central and South Interior, and Alberta | Jul– Sep 2017 | 0 | $586 million[30] | 305+[31] | 1216053ha[32] | Estimated 65,000 evacuated. Largest single wildfire in BC Wildfire history. | ||||||
| 2017 Alberta fires | Alberta, Saskatchewan | summer 2017 | 1[33] | 14+ | Fires possibly caused by power lines downed in a storm.[34] | |||||||
| Temagami | Jul– Aug 2018 | 0 | 221ha | |||||||||
| Parry Sound District | Jul– Oct 2018 | 0 | 11362.5ha | |||||||||
| British Columbia | summer 2018 | 50+ [35] | 1298454ha | Initial estimates put 2018 as the largest total burn-area in any British Columbia wildfire season, surpassing the 2017 wildfire season.[36] | ||||||||
| Northwestern and Central Alberta | Mar–Dec 2019 | 16[37] | 883414ha[38] | Both lightning and human activity have been contributed to the cause, as well several are under investigation. (*as of 18 Oct, 2019) | ||||||||
| Lytton | Jun 2021 | 2 | $78 million | Fire started after a record breaking heatwave. | ||||||||
| Nova Scotia | summer 2023 | 0 | 250+ | 24128ha | 18,000 evacuated. | |||||||
| Alberta | 2023 | 1220000ha | Wisconsin had the worst air quality of the year. It was so bad that even the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison cancelled summer school on June 28th. As well, many local outdoor swimming pools were closed. | |||||||||
| 2024 Canada wildfires | Alberta and British Columbia | 2024 | Thousands evacuated. |