Wildland fire and flood evacuation statistics between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2026
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Number of First Nations flood evacuees by province or territory (numbers are not final)
Number of First Nations flood evacuees by province or territory between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2026 (numbers are not final)
- Nova Scotia: 425 (includes 60 long term*)
- New Brunswick: 8
- Quebec: 97 (includes 26 long term*)
- Ontario: 17,101 (includes 50 long term*)
- Manitoba: 3,070 (includes 1,994 long term*)
- Saskatchewan: 493 (includes 89 long term*)
- Alberta: 3,070 (includes 381 long term*)
- British Columbia: 1,916 (includes 265 long term*)
- Northwest Territories: 450 (includes 9 long term*)
- Yukon: 39
Total evacuees: 27,469 (includes 2,876 long term*)
*long term: more than 60 days
Number of First Nations flood evacuations
Number of First Nations flood evacuations
- 2016 to 2017: 11 short term, 6 long term*
- 2017 to 2018: 18 short term, 5 long term*
- 2018 to 2019: 21 short term, 2 long term*
- 2019 to 2020: 7 short term, 5 long term*
- 2020 to 2021: 12 short term, 3 long term*
- 2021 to 2022: 7 short term, 13 long term*
- 2022 to 2023: 20 short term, 8 long term*
- 2023 to 2024: 11 short term
- 2024 to 2025: 5 short term
- 2025 to 2026: 7 short term, 1 long term*
*long term: more than 60 days
Number of First Nations wildfire evacuees by province or territory between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2026 (numbers are not final)
Number of First Nations wildfire evacuees by province or territory between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2026 (numbers are not final)
- Newfoundland: 18
- Nova Scotia: 20 (includes 1 long term*)
- Quebec: 8,924
- Ontario: 17,707
- Manitoba: 48,083 (includes 6,881 long term*)
- Saskatchewan: 27,647 (includes 302 long term*)
- Alberta: 28,216 (includes 3,983 long term*)
- British Columbia: 11,848 (includes 1,147 long term*)
- Northwest Territories: 799
- Yukon: 462
Total evacuees: 143,724 (includes 12,314 long term*)
*long term: more than 60 days
**Indigenous Services Canada's Emergency Management Assistance Program (EMAP) supports on-reserve and other eligible First Nations communities. In the Northwest Territories, there are two eligible on-reserve First Nations communities under EMAP. As such, this figure only represents the number of evacuees from those two communities and does not encompass all First Nation peoples impacted by evacuations in the territory.
Number of First Nations wildfire evacuations
Number of First Nations wildfire evacuations
- 2016 to 2017: 14 short term
- 2017 to 2018: 22 short term, 7 long term*
- 2018 to 2019: 30 short term, 2 long term*
- 2019 to 2020: 16 short term
- 2020 to 2021: 4 short term, 1 long term*
- 2021 to 2022: 53 short term, 4 long term*
- 2022 to 2023: 11 short term, 1 long term*
- 2023 to 2024: 86 short term, 4 long term*
- 2024 to 2025: 26 short term
- 2025 t0 2026: 52 short term, 21 long term*
*long term: more than 60 days