Ranking years by hectares burned in BC

2023 data updated as of July 24.

As wildfires are mapped in greater detail and data is inputted from a variety of sources, numbers may fluctuate slightly depending on when they were accessed, according to the BC Wildfire Service. The data on this graph from 1950 to 2022 was last updated on July 1, 2023.
Chart: Christopher Cheung, The TyeeSource: BC Wildfire ServiceCreated with Datawrapper