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Wildfires in British Columbia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 142,780 km² of British Columbia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 11,620 km², ranking 1st of 13 regions of Canada.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2023, with 35,030 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 3,480 km². The 2021–2025 average is 123% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 August 2018, with detections in 7,742 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 142,780 km² with at least one detection, 1.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 125,280 | 88% |
| 2 years | 15,740 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,700 | 1.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 55 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 15 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 53.25, -125.75 and holds 1.7% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,890 | 11,133 |
| 2013 | 5,880 | 10,643 |
| 2014 | 9,160 | 24,326 |
| 2015 | 10,030 | 20,526 |
| 2016 | 5,560 | 9,827 |
| 2017 | 17,360 | 60,055 |
| 2018 | 21,800 | 77,664 |
| 2019 | 5,140 | 9,040 |
| 2020 | 3,480 | 6,239 |
| 2021 | 14,180 | 44,682 |
| 2022 | 4,820 | 13,734 |
| 2023 | 35,030 | 125,775 |
| 2024 | 14,340 | 51,401 |
| 2025 | 11,000 | 32,756 |
Other regions of Canada
- Northwest Territories10,790 km² in an average year
- Saskatchewan10,300 km² in an average year
- Alberta8,430 km² in an average year
- Manitoba6,670 km² in an average year
- Quebec4,640 km² in an average year
- Ontario2,970 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Washington, United States630 km
- Alberta726 km
- Idaho, United States1,106 km
- Montana, United States1,108 km
- Oregon, United States1,133 km
- Northwest Territories1,184 km