British Columbia · 2015–2025
A decade of fire, measured from the official record.
BC Wildfire Service season totals. Mapped points are incidents of 1 hectare or more from the historical incident layer.
Suppression 2015–24
$5.04 B
Hectares burned
2023 is the record: 2.84 million hectares — more than 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022 combined.
Starts by cause
Lightning is about 60% of starts and most of the area. Human starts cluster on the town perimeter — that is the prevention problem.
Sources: BC Wildfire Service — Historical Fire Incident Locations (Open Government Licence – British Columbia). Season totals from BC Wildfire Service wildfire averages and 2025 season summary. Retrieved 2026-09-06. This is a planning aid, not an operational fire-control system.