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EDMONTON — The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the wildfire that tore by Jasper is the second-most costly one in Alberta’s historical past for insured losses.
It says initial estimates recommend greater than $880 million in insured injury was attributable to the hearth.
The 2016 wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta., resulted in inflation-adjusted insured losses of $4.4 billion and was the most costly pure catastrophe in Canadian historical past.
About 25,000 folks had been compelled to flee Jasper National Park and the city on July 22.
The city’s 5,000 residents had been allowed again greater than three weeks later, although the realm remains to be closed to guests.
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More than 350 buildings in Jasper had been destroyed, representing a 3rd of its buildings.
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