About the enormity of the wildfires in Canada
This Wikipedia-article writes:
"The 2023 wildfire season has seen the most area burned in Canada's recorded history, surpassing the 1989, 1995, and 2014 fire seasons, as well as in recorded North American history, surpassing the 2020 Western US wildfire season."
"As of September 15, 6,317 fires had burned 173,598 square kilometres (67,027 sq mi; 42,897,000 acres), about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada and more than six times the long-term average of 2.71 million ha (6.7 million acres) for that time of the year. As of September 15, there were 913 wildfires active, and 527 of those were deemed "out of control".
How big area is 173 000 square kilometres?
Think about the fact that England covers an area of 130,279 sq. km.
Syria, in turn, covers an area of 183,180 km2. See how big the country is in comparison with Lebanon, Israel and the Mediterranean sea.
So an area much bigger than England, almost as big an area as Syria, has burned in Canada.
This is really apocalyptic.
This chart, from this article, reveals much:
Here we get a picture of the local devastation: "Nearly 200 structures lost in Central Okanagan wildfires; lifting smoke to expose view", by Kathy Michaels, on osted August 22, 2023.
I don't find any data on the total amount of buildings destroyed in the fires.
