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BC wildfire season 2022

In 2022, the BC Wildfire Service recorded 1,803 wildfires, and their mapped perimeters cover 132,118 ha (1,321 km²): the 14th-largest season since 1990 by area. 22 fires grew past 1,000 ha and account for 84% of that area; the largest was the Battleship Mountain wildfire at 34,753 ha. Large fires reached Hudson's Hope.

Battleship Mountain wildfire, 2022: 34,753 haHeather Lake wildfire, 2022: 14,971 haOne Ace Mountain wildfire, 2022: 12,330 haKeremeos Creek wildfire, 2022: 7,019 haBearhole Lake wildfire, 2022: 6,499 haYalakom Mountain wildfire, 2022: 6,345 haNohomin Creek wildfire, 2022: 3,746 haWildfire K71440, 2022: 2,762 haWildfire G82427, 2022: 2,484 haOnion Creek wildfire, 2022: 1,935 haWildfire N70969, 2022: 1,924 haMcnaugh Creek wildfire, 2022: 1,830 haWildfire G71778, 2022: 1,794 haWildfire N10989, 2022: 1,719 haWildfire G60782, 2022: 1,662 haWildfire G90313, 2022: 1,609 haMount Docking wildfire, 2022: 1,333 haDownton Creek FSR wildfire, 2022: 1,328 haWildfire N71980, 2022: 1,106 haJennings River wildfire, 2022: 1,101 haWildfire N11062, 2022: 1,088 haMilliken Creek wildfire, 2022: 1,077 ha

Fires of 1,000 ha or more in 2022Other years since 1990

The 22 large fires of 2022, largest first

  1. 1Battleship Mountain (G72150)August 30, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area E; Hudson's Hope34,753 ha
  2. 2Heather Lake (V11746)August 21, 2022 · Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area H14,971 ha
  3. 3One Ace Mountain (R90436)June 30, 2022 · Stikine Region12,330 ha
  4. 4Keremeos Creek (K50863)July 29, 2022 · Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area I; Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area G7,019 ha
  5. 5Bearhole Lake (G72178)August 31, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area D6,499 ha
  6. 6Yalakom Mountain (K71995)August 24, 2022 · Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area B; Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area E (Bonaparte Plateau)6,345 ha
  7. 7Nohomin Creek (K70580)July 14, 2022 · Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country)3,746 ha
  8. 8K71440August 13, 2022 · Thompson-Nicola, Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country)2,762 ha
  9. 9G82427September 12, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area B2,484 ha
  10. 10Onion Creek (G72252)September 3, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area D1,935 ha
  11. 11N70969July 1, 2022 · Central Kootenay, Electoral Area D1,924 ha
  12. 12Mcnaugh Creek (V11952)August 10, 2022 · Fraser Valley, Electoral Area B1,830 ha
  13. 13G71778August 22, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area E1,794 ha
  14. 14N10989August 1, 2022 · East Kootenay, Electoral Area B; East Kootenay, Electoral Area C1,719 ha
  15. 15G60782June 22, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area B1,662 ha
  16. 16G90313June 16, 2022 · Stikine Region1,609 ha
  17. 17Mount Docking (N20881)July 29, 2022 · East Kootenay, Electoral Area G1,333 ha
  18. 18Downton Creek FSR (K71717)August 20, 2022 · Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area B1,328 ha
  19. 19N71980August 24, 2022 · Central Kootenay, Electoral Area D1,106 ha
  20. 20Jennings River (R90474)July 1, 2022 · Stikine Region1,101 ha
  21. 21N11062August 4, 2022 · East Kootenay, Electoral Area A1,088 ha
  22. 22Milliken Creek (G92640)October 6, 2022 · Peace River, Electoral Area B1,077 ha

Under each fire: when it started and the places with the most of it. Bars compare each fire with the season's largest.

Wildfires recorded1,803
Area inside mapped perimeters132,118 ha (1,321 km²)
Fires of 1,000 ha or more22, covering 110,413 ha
Rank by area since 199014th 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.

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