I did not realize the scope of this fire. The official Canadian disaster database lists the Great Ice Storm of 1998 as the costliest disaster in the nation's history. Adjusted for inflation, that storm caused 4.6 billion in damages. If the estimate in this article is accurate, this fire will be the most expensive natural disaster in Canada's history by a factor of two. It will beat out the combined cost of the top 5 disasters on the list.

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