for more information on major wildfires go to the supplementary notes*
Supplementary notes
* Data includes disasters that meet one of the following criteria: 10 or more people killed. 100 or more people affected. An appeal for national/international assistance was issued. Deemed historically significant. or significant damage or interruption of normal processes were such that the community affected cannot recover on its own.
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Number of major forest fires in Canada 1980-2019, by decade
The number of disastrous wildfires in Canada has increased each decade since the . The recorded the largest number of major wildfires in Canada, at **. In comparison, only **** such disasters occurred in Canada in the ****.
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