Five years of NWT emergencies cost more than $350M. What’s changing? – Cabin Radio
February 26, 2026
The NWT has spent more than $350 million addressing floods and wildfires over the past five years, with recovery from some events still years from completion.
The territory’s first emergency management annual report, published this week by the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, or Maca, put the cost of disasters from 2021 to 2025 at $354 million.
Communities minister Vince McKay had promised last November to produce annual reports on the emergency management system after rejecting calls from regular MLAs to establish a standalone emergency management agency.
