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Oh yes, yes there are. Millions of hectares burn down every year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Oh yes, yes there are. Millions of hectares burn down every year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfire... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_wildfire... Last year an entire town disappeared: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-sept-7-2021-1.6166608/2-months-after-lytton-b-c-was-destroyed-by-fire-its-future-is-still-unclear-1.6171191 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-sept-7-2...

dahfizz 5y ago
Dang, what makes the west coast so prone to burning? I've lived on the east coast all my life and have never encountered a wild fire. The biggest fires we get are ~1000 acres[1], and easily contained. [1] https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/05/17/large-brush-fire-has-been-burning-western-mass-since-last-week/5137841001/ https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/05/17/larg...
- lazide 5y ago
  The west coast has large tracts of unoccupied, I maintained forest land, and a more Mediterranean climate (wet then much drier). The two combine into large, periodic forest Fires. The east coast has much fewer unbroken tracts of forest, and where it does have them they are more heavily managed and stewarded for a number of reasons. The east coast was developed and property subdivided/allocated long before the tendency towards large national parks, monuments, etc. It isn’t that these national parks or forests cause all these problems (though many of them DO feature prominently in these huge fires), they are also a sign of the very different nature of land allocation during the settling of the area. You can see this pretty clearly if you pull up maps of federal land (national forests, national parks, blm land, etc). Several western states have more land owned by the federal government than anyone else. They are all out west.
earleybird 5y ago
We have two seasons in BC, Avalanche[0] and Wildfire[1] - other than that, it's the "Best Place on Earth" [0]https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-and-cycling/traveller-information/seasonal/winter-driving/avalanche https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an... [1]https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee385abe2a41b https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee...

dahfizz 5y ago

Dang, what makes the west coast so prone to burning? I've lived on the east coast all my life and have never encountered a wild fire. The biggest fires we get are ~1000 acres[1], and easily contained. [1] https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/05/17/large-brush-fire-has-been-burning-western-mass-since-last-week/5137841001/ https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/05/17/larg...

lazide 5y ago
The west coast has large tracts of unoccupied, I maintained forest land, and a more Mediterranean climate (wet then much drier). The two combine into large, periodic forest Fires. The east coast has much fewer unbroken tracts of forest, and where it does have them they are more heavily managed and stewarded for a number of reasons. The east coast was developed and property subdivided/allocated long before the tendency towards large national parks, monuments, etc. It isn’t that these national parks or forests cause all these problems (though many of them DO feature prominently in these huge fires), they are also a sign of the very different nature of land allocation during the settling of the area. You can see this pretty clearly if you pull up maps of federal land (national forests, national parks, blm land, etc). Several western states have more land owned by the federal government than anyone else. They are all out west.

earleybird 5y ago

We have two seasons in BC, Avalanche[0] and Wildfire[1] - other than that, it's the "Best Place on Earth" [0]https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-and-cycling/traveller-information/seasonal/winter-driving/avalanche https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an... [1]https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee385abe2a41b https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee...