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.

[–] omgarm@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah you''re right. Thanks for the info!

[–] liori@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So a full season of all outdoor fires in each of 2017, 18, and 19.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And we’ve had “more than usual” since 2016.

[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Every timeline seems to start from 2016

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

We usually have a couple hundred at once come August here in BC.