2020 British Columbia Wildfire History
BC Wildfire Service's annual wildfire activity table reports 670 fires and 14,536 ha burned in British Columbia in 2020, with an estimated suppression cost of $193.7 million.
BC Wildfire Service annual activity table
Province-published annual total
Province-published estimate
Season context
Human-caused fires: 395 (59%); lightning-caused fires: 275 (41%), 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 2020.