Historical Fire Records
Explore archived 2024 BC wildfire incident records.
Satellite Hotspot Archive (FIRMS)
NASA/ESA thermal-anomaly detections over BC for the selected year, rendered over the records map above.
Historical fire statistics, British Columbia 1990–2021
Annual area burned, fire counts, National Forestry Database cause classes, and climate correlations — from the NFD and BC research datasets.
Annual area burned (hectares)
BC annual hectares burned, 1990–2021 (A1). 2018 was the worst season in the window.
Fire counts: total vs human-caused
Annual fire counts in BC (A1). Both series trend downward over the window.
Fires by cause class
NFD number of fires by cause class, 1990–2021 (A2). BC rarely reports prescribed burns or reburns.
Human-caused share of fires
Canada-wide human vs lightning vs other fires, 1990–2005 vs 2006–2021. The source study (A2) tested whether the human share rose — it did not.
Atmospheric CO₂ vs area burned
Mauna Loa annual CO₂ vs BC hectares burned (A1). Dotted line is the least-squares fit.
Prince George precipitation vs area burned
Annual precipitation (mm) vs BC hectares burned (A1) — wetter years tend to burn less.