wildfire

Question 1

what is the name of the wildfire and location?

Answer 1

Alberta wildfire - Canada, Alberta, 4 may 2016 - North west called the beast

Question 2

how many fires - how many homes destroyed

Answer 2

1,600 homes destroyed

Question 3

how many people were evacuated

Answer 3

88,000 fort McMurrey, one of Canadas costliest natural disasters , insurance bill rise above half a billion pounds. No-one killed or injured

Question 4

causes and contributing factors

Answer 4

forest ignited in remote boreal forest to SW of Fort McMurry on 1.5.16
initially fire under control but significant shift in wind direction resulted in a blare that tore through for mcmurrey
climate scientists linked the fire to strong ElNino effect lining to unusually warm and dry spring

Question 5

medium term causes

Answer 5

12 month long drought = highly flammable fuel/vegetation
winter of 2015-16 lack if snow - so didn’t melt and keep ground moist

Question 6

short term causes

Answer 6

high temperatures around 30 degreese
strong shoutherly winds (continental) blowing matterial furthur and adding more oxygen for fuel
know one knows how the fire was started but 39% of wildfires in canada start from lightning strikes
rapid control of fire in forest over the last 20 years prevented small fires burning bush at ground layer so it accumulated allowing conditions for the fire that broke out.

Question 7

environmental impacts

Answer 7

fire released millions of tones of c02 into the atmosphere,boreal forest ecosystem due to seasonal soils and burned tress roots

Question 8

social impacts

Question 8

economic impacts

Question 8

political impacts

Question 9

responses

Question 9

community response and positives that come from it