2016 British Columbia Wildfire History
BC Wildfire Service's annual wildfire activity table reports 1,050 fires and 100,366 ha burned in British Columbia in 2016, with an estimated suppression cost of $129 million.
BC Wildfire Service annual activity table
Province-published annual total
Province-published estimate
Season context
Human-caused fires: 564 (54%); lightning-caused fires: 486 (46%), using the BC Wildfire Service annual table's source categories.
Fire count, area burned and suppression cost describe different dimensions of a season and should not be collapsed into one severity score.
FireRadar keeps these province-published annual statistics separate from its retained observation archive, which begins in 2026.
Official source
BC Wildfire Service — Wildfire Averages. Official British Columbia annual wildfire activity table with total fires, hectares, estimated suppression costs and human/lightning cause counts.
Archive boundary
FireRadar's retained observation history begins in 2026. This page is an imported official season statistic and does not imply FireRadar observed individual incidents during 2016.