Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.
Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.
What is normal for this time of year? 1000 sounds insane but I want to know if 10 or 0 is normal.
Don’t know specifics, but this is Canada’s worst fire season since 1990.
Good question! I quickly found this table, though this is yearly statistics only: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510019201
So a full season of all outdoor fires in each of 2017, 18, and 19.
And we’ve had “more than usual” since 2016.
Every timeline seems to start from 2016
Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.
Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.
Yeah you’'re right. Thanks for the info!
We usually have a couple hundred at once come August here in BC.