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BC wildfire season 2000
In 2000, the BC Wildfire Service recorded 1,539 wildfires, and their mapped perimeters cover 4,807 ha: the 33rd-largest season since 1990 by area. No fire grew past 1,000 ha.
No large fires in 2000
No wildfire in 2000 reached 1,000 ha in the province's perimeters.
| Wildfires recorded | 1,539 |
|---|---|
| Area inside mapped perimeters | 4,807 ha |
| Fires of 1,000 ha or more | 0, covering 0 ha |
| Rank by area since 1990 | 33rd of 36 |
Every fire of 1,000 ha or more since 1990, as the BC Wildfire Service mapped it. A perimeter is the fire's outer edge: patches inside it may not have burned, and the hectares are the area inside it. A fire that burned through the winter keeps the year it started. Names are the province's; a fire without one goes by its fire number. The area adds up every perimeter of the season, small fires included; where two fires' perimeters overlap, the ground is counted twice, so totals can differ from the BC Wildfire Service's season summary.
Past fire is history, not a forecast. The chance of fire on a lot today depends on what the record doesn't show: the forest and grass around it, the slope, what has been thinned or burned since, and how far it is from a fire hall.
Sources: BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Current, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Incident Locations – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Locations – Current, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on October 2, 2026. Outlines simplified and places measured by PlaceDossier.