The 2011 fire season is coming to an end.
By 12 a.m. Tuesday, the official forest fire season for this year will come to a close. But this season’s impact on the record books will not end so soon.
Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed 908 forest fires in the Northwest region this fire season. That’s 68 per cent of the total forest fires confirmed in the entire province.
The MNR’s Debbie MacLean said there are still 15 active forest fires burning right now.
“Eleven of those fire are what we call ‘being observed,’ so until we see that there’s absolutely no forest fire activity those fires will remain active of the books,” she said.
More than 629,000 hectares of land burned during the forest fire season, which is a new provincial record for hectares burned in one region in a single fire season.
Fires also caused more than 4,000 people to evacuate from 11 Northern communities.
