After all, we live in a forested landscape with lots of fuel at our doorstep
On average, British Columbia has experienced 1,483 wildfires per year over the past decade. We are certainly on pace to exceed that number this year.
. We also keep building new developments into existing forests, such as the housing along Tyner Boulevard. It is likely only a matter of time before our region suffers a heat dome sufficient to dry out the woods and allow a fire to take hold. Housing in forests will be susceptible to the sort of fires we are seeing elsewhere.
It would be easy to say the answer to that question is “yes” but there are more factors at play than just the recent heat domes and increasing surface temperature. Don’t get me wrong – the overall increase in the mean surface temperature of the planet, which has exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past 13 months, is definitely a contributing factor. But fires have claimed B.C. towns and cities before.
However, in the past few years, we have seen fires destroy Lytton, threaten Kelowna and Fort St. John, force evacuations in the southern interior and destroy large tracts of forest and brush. In Alberta, Fort McMurray and now Jasper have been heavily damaged by forest fires.
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