Forest Fire (88737 ha) in Canada 27 May 2023

Event summary

This forest fire can have a low humanitarian impact based on the and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID WF 1014486
Countries: Canada
Start Date - Last detection*: 27 May 2023 - 14 Jun 2023
Duration (days): 18
People affected: 0 in the burned area
Burned area: 88737 ha
More Info: Global Wildfire Information System

*(Last detection of the thermal anomaly of the fire)

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2023-06-23T16:23:44.214Z. Highlights: The hot and dry weather of recent days in Northern Quebec is giving new vigour to the fires ravaging this region over hundreds of thousands of hectares. An Aboriginal reserve, located far north, has beg
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P.E.I. will have civil servants ready to fight forest fires after 10 d ... 2023-06-23T11:05+0200.

Firefighters await a helicopter to take them to a forest fire in Yarmouth County in Nova Scotia earlier this month. At the moment, Prince Edward Island has only about a dozen people who are trained to respond to a wildfire. (Jonathan Villen
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (27), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JRC (1),