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50°N52°N54°N56°N58°N60°N135°W130°W125°W120°W115°WVancouver: no mapped wildfireSurrey: no mapped wildfireBurnaby: no mapped wildfireRichmond: 0.7%Abbotsford: no mapped wildfireCoquitlam: 0.1%Kelowna: 11%Langley (district municipality): no mapped wildfireSaanich: no mapped wildfireDelta: 0.4%Nanaimo: under 0.1%Kamloops: 1.9%Chilliwack: 0.1%Victoria: no mapped wildfireMaple Ridge: no mapped wildfireNorth Vancouver (district municipality): no mapped wildfireNew Westminster: no mapped wildfirePrince George: under 0.1%Port Coquitlam: no mapped wildfireNorth Vancouver (city): no mapped wildfireLangford: under 0.1%Vernon: 1.6%West Vancouver: under 0.1%Mission: under 0.1%Penticton: 0.2%West Kelowna: 36%Campbell River: 0.2%Port Moody: no mapped wildfireNorth Cowichan: under 0.1%Langley (city): no mapped wildfireCourtenay: no mapped wildfireSquamish: 0.5%White Rock: no mapped wildfireFort St. John: 1.1%Cranbrook: no mapped wildfireSalmon Arm: 11%Pitt Meadows: no mapped wildfireColwood: no mapped wildfireMetro Vancouver, Electoral Area A: under 0.1%Port Alberni: under 0.1%Oak Bay: no mapped wildfireEsquimalt: no mapped wildfireCentral Saanich: no mapped wildfireLake Country: 2.4%Sooke: under 0.1%Comox: no mapped wildfireWhistler: 0.2%Powell River: no mapped wildfireParksville: no mapped wildfireDawson Creek: under 0.1%Sidney: no mapped wildfirePrince Rupert: no mapped wildfireNorth Saanich: no mapped wildfireSummerland: 8.2%Terrace: 0.3%Saltspring Island: under 0.1%View Royal: under 0.1%Coldstream: 0.5%Nelson: no mapped wildfireWilliams Lake: 6.0%Sechelt: under 0.1%Quesnel: no mapped wildfireQualicum Beach: no mapped wildfireComox Valley, Electoral Area C (Puntledge - Black Creek): under 0.1%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area B: under 0.1%Ladysmith: no mapped wildfireColumbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area C: 3.2%Castlegar: under 0.1%Revelstoke: no mapped wildfireKitimat: 0.2%Nanaimo, Electoral Area F: 2.8%Kimberley: no mapped wildfireNanaimo, Electoral Area G: no mapped wildfireComox Valley, Electoral Area A: under 0.1%Trail: 0.1%Nanaimo, Electoral Area A: 0.2%Comox Valley, Electoral Area B (Lazo North): under 0.1%Merritt: 0.3%Nanaimo, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireHope: 9.8%East Kootenay, Electoral Area C: 7.4%Fernie: no mapped wildfireKent: 2.2%Cariboo, Electoral Area A: 1.2%Southern Gulf Islands: no mapped wildfirePeace River, Electoral Area C: 1.6%Peachland: 13%Bulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area A: under 0.1%Creston: no mapped wildfireOsoyoos: 2.5%Peace River, Electoral Area B: 14%Smithers: under 0.1%Armstrong: no mapped wildfireCariboo, Electoral Area G: 11%Spallumcheen: 0.6%Juan de Fuca (Part 1): 1.1%Oliver: 0.7%Metchosin: no mapped wildfireDuncan: no mapped wildfireCowichan Valley, Electoral Area C: no mapped wildfireCentral Kootenay, Electoral Area H: 9.2%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area A: under 0.1%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area B: 4.7%Peace River, Electoral Area D: 9.9%Cariboo, Electoral Area F: 5.0%Cariboo, Electoral Area L: 5.7%Gibsons: no mapped wildfireNorth Okanagan, Electoral Area C: 0.3%Nanaimo, Electoral Area B: no mapped wildfireCumberland: no mapped wildfireColumbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area D: 8.8%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area D: under 0.1%North Okanagan, Electoral Area F: 5.6%Vanderhoof: no mapped wildfireNanaimo, Electoral Area H: 0.3%Central Okanagan: 10%Bowen Island: no mapped wildfireCowichan Valley, Electoral Area E: 0.5%Strathcona, Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake): 2.0%Sparwood: 2.0%Rossland: no mapped wildfireCentral Kootenay, Electoral Area F: 6.8%Cariboo, Electoral Area E: 4.7%Grand Forks: 0.1%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks): 14%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area D: 27%Golden: no mapped wildfireOkanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area C: 35%Northern Rockies: 29%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireInvermere: no mapped wildfirePort Hardy: under 0.1%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area E: 11%Sunshine Coast, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireCariboo, Electoral Area B: under 0.1%Lantzville: no mapped wildfireFraser-Fort George, Electoral Area C: 2.6%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area D: no mapped wildfireSunshine Coast, Electoral Area D: no mapped wildfireEast Kootenay, Electoral Area F: 12%Bulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area F: 18%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area J: 21%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area A: 0.2%Pemberton: no mapped wildfireNanaimo, Electoral Area C: 0.3%Columbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area A: 2.3%Lake Cowichan: under 0.1%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area L (Grasslands): 14%Mackenzie: 0.2%North Okanagan, Electoral Area B: 45%Kootenay Boundary D / Rural Grand Forks: 6.6%Columbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area F: 13%Houston: no mapped wildfireSunshine Coast, Electoral Area A: 0.2%Enderby: no mapped wildfireKootenay Boundary E / West Boundary: 1.5%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area C (Part 1): 0.2%Sunshine Coast, Electoral Area B: 0.7%Alberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area E: 0.2%North Okanagan, Electoral Area D: 1.1%Central Okanagan West: 26%Princeton: 12%Cariboo, Electoral Area D: 7.3%Elkford: 0.4%Strathcona, Electoral Area C: 0.9%Peace River, Electoral Area E: 4.8%Sicamous: 0.3%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area I: under 0.1%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area H: 0.8%Tofino: no mapped wildfireHighlands: under 0.1%Fraser Valley, Electoral Area H: under 0.1%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area G: no mapped wildfireSunshine Coast, Electoral Area F: under 0.1%Chase: 6.3%Tumbler Ridge: 4.2%Clearwater: no mapped wildfireAnmore: no mapped wildfirePort McNeill: no mapped wildfireOkanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area I: 18%Chetwynd: 0.3%Lillooet: 0.3%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area G: 37%Logan Lake: 5.3%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area A: 10%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area H: 12%qathet, Electoral Area C: under 0.1%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area A: 45%Fraser Valley, Electoral Area D: under 0.1%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area F: 4.0%Ucluelet: no mapped wildfireLumby: no mapped wildfireOkanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area E: 23%East Kootenay, Electoral Area B: 7.2%Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area C: 4.0%Alberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area F: 9.3%Fruitvale: no mapped wildfire100 Mile House: 4.6%Harrison Hot Springs: no mapped wildfireCariboo, Electoral Area H: 4.2%East Kootenay, Electoral Area A: 6.5%Alberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area D: 0.4%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area F: under 0.1%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country): 42%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area K: 6.2%Barriere: 88%Warfield: 0.1%Bulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area B: 7.9%Fraser Valley, Electoral Area G: no mapped wildfireEast Kootenay, Electoral Area E: 7.5%Ashcroft: 23%qathet, Electoral Area B: under 0.1%Burns Lake: 0.1%East Kootenay, Electoral Area G: 5.9%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area G: 3.4%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area M (Beautiful Nicola Valley - North): 7.8%Kootenay Boundary C / Christina Lake: 1.5%Kootenay Boundary, Electoral Area A: 1.0%Keremeos: no mapped wildfireBulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area D: 38%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area H: 1.8%Nakusp: no mapped wildfireThompson-Nicola, Electoral Area A (Wells Gray Country): 7.6%Fraser Valley, Electoral Area E: 0.3%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area O (Lower North Thompson): 14%Bulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area E: 39%Cariboo, Electoral Area I: 40%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area C: 8.3%Telkwa: under 0.1%Central Kootenay, Electoral Area D: 9.1%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area B: 1.0%Cowichan Valley, Electoral Area I: under 0.1%Kootenay Boundary B / Lower Columbia-Old-Glory: 0.9%Sun Peaks: no mapped wildfireLions Bay: no mapped wildfireColumbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area E: 5.7%Fort St. James: no mapped wildfireFraser Valley, Electoral Area F: 0.3%Radium Hot Springs: no mapped wildfireTaylor: 0.6%Bulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area C: 9.5%qathet, Electoral Area A: 0.2%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area F: 0.2%Gold River: under 0.1%Cariboo, Electoral Area C: 2.9%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area E (Bonaparte Plateau): 39%Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area B: 50%Salmo: no mapped wildfireFraser Valley, Electoral Area C: 1.1%qathet, Electoral Area D: under 0.1%North Okanagan, Electoral Area E: 6.3%Strathcona, Electoral Area B: no mapped wildfireSquamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area D: 1.8%Valemount: no mapped wildfireKaslo: no mapped wildfireThompson-Nicola, Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country): 37%Montrose: under 0.1%Cache Creek: 42%Fraser Lake: no mapped wildfireDaajing Giids: no mapped wildfireAlberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area C: no mapped wildfireFraser Valley, Electoral Area B: 4.6%Strathcona, Electoral Area A: 0.8%Hudson's Hope: 2.8%Masset: no mapped wildfireBulkley-Nechako, Electoral Area G: 2.3%Canal Flats: no mapped wildfireMount Waddington, Electoral Area C: 0.7%Pouce Coupe: no mapped wildfirePort Alice: no mapped wildfireThompson-Nicola, Electoral Area N (Beautiful Nicola Valley - South): 14%Greenwood: no mapped wildfireMount Waddington, Electoral Area A: 2.4%Belcarra: no mapped wildfireColumbia-Shuswap, Electoral Area B: 2.8%Central Coast, Electoral Area C: 12%Midway: 0.2%Cariboo, Electoral Area J: 23%New Hazelton: under 0.1%McBride: 17%North Coast, Electoral Area D: no mapped wildfireClinton: 3.3%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area E: 0.2%Alberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area B: under 0.1%Stewart: no mapped wildfireqathet, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireFraser Valley, Electoral Area A: 8.8%New Denver: no mapped wildfirePort Edward: no mapped wildfireAlert Bay: no mapped wildfireCariboo, Electoral Area K: 33%Stikine Region: 6.3%Central Coast, Electoral Area D: 1.2%Juan de Fuca (Part 2): 0.6%Tahsis: no mapped wildfireSlocan: no mapped wildfireSquamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area B: 20%Mount Waddington, Electoral Area D: 0.8%Fraser-Fort George, Electoral Area G: 3.8%Port Clements: no mapped wildfireGranisle: no mapped wildfireSayward: 3.4%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area F: 3.2%North Coast, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireSquamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area A: 6.5%Hazelton: no mapped wildfireAlberni-Clayoquot, Electoral Area A: 1.1%Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area B (Thompson Headwaters): 1.5%Wells: 0.6%Lytton: 59%Central Coast, Electoral Area E: no mapped wildfireCentral Coast, Electoral Area A: 0.7%Silverton: no mapped wildfireZeballos: 1.3%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area D: 3.5%Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area A: under 0.1%North Coast, Electoral Area A: no mapped wildfireMount Waddington, Electoral Area B: no mapped wildfireNorth Coast, Electoral Area C: under 0.1%

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Wildfire since 1996

What this map shows

Share of the land inside a mapped wildfire perimeter since 1996

The strongest colour is about the top tenth of places with a figure; the fainter ones hold about the next 15%, 20% and 25%, and the faintest about the lowest 30%. Places with the same figure share a colour, so a group can hold a little more or less. Measures that take only a few values, poor-air days and hardiness zones, are grouped by fixed classes instead, marked on the bar at their edges. Places with no figure, or too small a base to rank, are left uncoloured. Lot lines are the province's open parcel map (ParcelMap BC): it shows titled lots and most Crown parcels, and its sizes are mapped, not surveyed.

Source: Fire perimeters – historical, BC Wildfire Service

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Most land burned by wildfire since 1996

  1. Barriere

    88%

  2. Lytton

    59%

  3. Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area B

    50%

Most land in the farmland reserve

  1. Ashcroft · Langley (district municipality)

    74%

  2. Pitt Meadows

    71%

  3. Abbotsford

    70%

Most land under mineral and placer titles

  1. Greenwood · Wells

    100%

  2. Logan Lake

    91%

  3. Stewart

    89%

Deepest water wells

  1. Sooke

    122 m

  2. Juan de Fuca (Part 1) · Metchosin

    107 m

  3. Bowen Island

    104 m

Highest home values

  1. West Vancouver

    $2,500,000

  2. Anmore

    $2,200,000

  3. Belcarra

    $2,000,000

Lowest: Port Alice $140,000

Fastest-growing places

  1. Sun Peaks

    +127.9%

  2. Radium Hot Springs

    +72.6%

  3. Central Okanagan West

    +45.5%

Shrank most: Peace River, Electoral Area D -19%

Oldest populations

  1. Qualicum Beach

    67.5 years

  2. Keremeos

    63.6 years

  3. Nanaimo, Electoral Area B · Osoyoos

    63.2 years

Snowiest places

  1. Whistler

    419 cm

  2. Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area B (Thompson Headwaters)

    416 cm

  3. Cariboo, Electoral Area L · Granisle

    216 cm

Mildest January

  1. Esquimalt · Oak Bay · Saanich +1

    5.8 °C

  2. Sechelt · Sunshine Coast, Electoral Area A · Sunshine Coast, Electoral Area B

    5.4 °C

  3. North Vancouver (city) · Tofino · Vancouver +1

    5.3 °C

Coldest: Dawson Creek · Peace River, Electoral Area D · Pouce Coupe -13.5 °C

Warmest summers

  1. Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area A

    23.2 °C

  2. Lytton

    22.6 °C

  3. Oliver

    22.2 °C

Most days over 30 °C

  1. Kamloops

    36 days

  2. Castlegar · Central Kootenay, Electoral Area G · Central Kootenay, Electoral Area J +2

    32 days

  3. Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area B (Thompson Headwaters)

    14 days

Mildest extreme cold

  1. Esquimalt · Oak Bay · Victoria

    -8.8 °C

  2. North Vancouver (city) · Vancouver · West Vancouver

    -9 °C

  3. Daajing Giids · North Coast, Electoral Area E

    -10.2 °C

Least winter sun

  1. Central Coast, Electoral Area C · Central Coast, Electoral Area D · New Hazelton

    0%

  2. Central Coast, Electoral Area E

    7%

  3. Central Coast, Electoral Area A

    13%

Highest property tax rates

  1. Granisle

    $19.81

  2. Fraser Lake

    $13.63

  3. Zeballos

    $12.71

Lowest: Whistler $2.78

Most homes without 50/10 Mbps internet

  1. Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area F · Mount Waddington, Electoral Area B · Stewart +1

    100%

  2. qathet, Electoral Area E

    98%

  3. Central Coast, Electoral Area A

    95%

By regional district

Alberni-Clayoquot

Bulkley-Nechako

Capital

Cariboo

Central Coast

Central Kootenay

Central Okanagan

Columbia Shuswap

Comox Valley

Cowichan Valley

East Kootenay

Fraser Valley

Fraser-Fort George

Kitimat-Stikine

Kootenay Boundary

Metro Vancouver

Mount Waddington

Nanaimo

North Coast

North Okanagan

Northern Rockies

Okanagan-Similkameen

Peace River

Squamish-Lillooet

Stikine

Strathcona

Sunshine Coast

Thompson-Nicola

qathet