Massive B.C. Wildfire Causes $77 Million in Insurance Damage

A chimney is all that remains standing at a home that was destroyed by the White Rock Lake wildfire earlier this month, in Monte Lake, B.C., on August 26, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

VANCOUVER—A wildfire that began on Aug. 2 in British Columbia and grew to more than 833 square kilometres is now estimated to have caused $77 million in insurance damage.

The cost estimate from the Insurance Bureau of Canada says the so-called White Rock Lake fire destroyed 78 properties in the Central Okanagan.