The wildfires that B.C. saw in 2021 were severe, but not the worst ever, a wildfire service report shows. At the height of the fires, the daily number of active blazes was over 300
saw the destruction of the village of Lytton and homes levelled in several other Interior regions, but the BC Wildfire Service says it was not the worst season on record.
The service report says at the height of the fires, the daily number of active blazes was over 300, triggering 181 evacuation orders and 304 evacuation alerts.Canada’s massive wildfires are the result of decades of bad decisions. Time to make better decisions The wildfire service report says drought-like conditions over southern B.C., coupled with record-breaking extreme heat and severe lightning storms, helped spark as many as 40 new fires every day in July.
The service imposed an early ban on all campfires and open burning on June 28 as B.C. sweltered under an unprecedented heat dome and temperatures reached an all-time Canadian high of 49.6 C in the Fraser Canyon community of Lytton.A cause of that fire remains undetermined.
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