Lytton wildfire

Lytton Creek Wildfire
Lytton Creek Wildfire
	Satellite imagery of Lytton, July 1, 2021
Date(s)	June 30, 2021
Location	Lytton, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	50°13′52″N 121°34′53″W / 50.23111°N 121.58139°W
Statistics
Burned area	as of 19:00 PDT, Aug 29 ; 83,740 hectares; 323 square miles; 837 square kilometres; 206,926 acres
Land use	Residential, forest, agricultural
Impacts
Deaths	2 civilians
Evacuated	1,000+ residents
Damage	$150 million (2021 USD)
Ignition
Cause	Undetermined but still under investigation as of October 2021
Map
	Location in British Columbia Location in Thompson-Nicola Regional District

A wildfire began on June 30, 2021 just south of the village of Lytton in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. The fire destroyed much of Lytton and caused two civilian fatalities, announced July 3.^[2] Several missing residents, still unaccounted for at that time, were later located.^[5] The fire, one of the 2021 British Columbia wildfires throughout the province, was facilitated by the 2021 Western North America heat wave.

At the time of the fire, Lytton had a population of about 250 with another 1,500 to 2,000 First Nations residents living nearby on reserves affected as well.^[6]

^ "Lytton Creek (K71086) – Wildfires of Note". bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c "BC Coroners Service confirms 2 deaths in Lytton wildfire". CBC News. 2021-07-03. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
^ Global Catastrophe Recap: October 2021 (PDF) (Report). Aon Benfield Inc. October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 11, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference TheStar-2021-10-14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Lytton, B.C., fire update: Missing persons accounted for, 2 possible origin sites investigated. July 12, 2021. Kendra Mangione, CTV News.
^ Cite error: The named reference G&M-2021-07-04 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[BCWF-1] "Lytton Creek (K71086) – Wildfires of Note". bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

[CBCcoroner-2] "BC Coroners Service confirms 2 deaths in Lytton wildfire". CBC News. 2021-07-03. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

[AON-October-3] Global Catastrophe Recap: October 2021 (PDF) (Report). Aon Benfield Inc. October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 11, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2021.

[TheStar-2021-10-14-4] Cite error: The named reference TheStar-2021-10-14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] Lytton, B.C., fire update: Missing persons accounted for, 2 possible origin sites investigated. July 12, 2021. Kendra Mangione, CTV News.

[G&M-2021-07-04-6] Cite error: The named reference G&M-2021-07-04 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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