Nova Scotia Wildfire Statistics
| Fires by Month | ||
|---|---|---|
| Month | Number of Fires | Hectares |
| January | 0 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0 |
| March | 0 | 0 |
| April | 1 | 0.1 |
| May | 202 | 498.778 |
| June | 6 | 1.3679 |
| July | 12 | 11.973 |
| August | 8 | 1.18 |
| September | 18 | 3.751 |
| October | 0 | 0 |
| November | 0 | 0 |
| December | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 247 | 517.1499 |
| Specific Causes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cause | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| Campfire | 16 | 16.701 |
| Debris Fire | 62 | 60.2909 |
| Exhaust System | 1 | 0.4 |
| Grass/Terrain | 10 | 19.39 |
| Incendiary Device | 96 | 300.505 |
| Other | 22 | 58.63 |
| Playing With Fire | 3 | 3.1 |
| Slash/Land Clearing | 17 | 29.281 |
| Smoking | 6 | 11.152 |
| Unknown | 14 | 15.2 |
| TOTALS | 247 | 514.6499 |
| Other Causes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cause | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| ATV | 1 | 0.14 |
| Blueberry | 3 | 6.6 |
| Machine | 3 | 3.3 |
| Other | 4 | 0.33 |
| fire works | 1 | 0.01 |
| Jumping a car | 1 | 0.1 |
| person | 1 | 0.2 |
| Powerline | 7 | 47.06 |
| Structure | 4 | 1.7 |
| TOTALS | 17 | 58.63 |
| Hectares Burned by County | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Number of Fires | Estimate Area Burned | Recorded Area Burned | Total Area Burned |
| Lunenburg | 10 | 0 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| Queens | 10 | 0.5 | 13.8 | 13.8 |
| Shelburne | 7 | 0 | 0.462 | 0.462 |
| Yarmouth | 8 | 0 | 160.005 | 160.005 |
| Digby | 6 | 0 | 0.79 | 0.79 |
| Annapolis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kings | 12 | 0 | 4.72 | 4.72 |
| Hants | 16 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Hants East | 8 | 0 | 11.16 | 11.16 |
| Hants West | 8 | 0 | 1.84 | 1.84 |
| Halifax | 25 | 0.2 | 28.4699 | 28.4689 |
| Halifax East | 18 | 0 | 27.7389 | 27.7389 |
| Halifax West | 7 | 0.2 | 0.731 | 0.931 |
| Cumberland | 14 | 0 | 23.97 | 23.97 |
| Cumberland East | 9 | 0 | 13.42 | 13.42 |
| Cumberland West | 5 | 0 | 10.55 | 10.55 |
| Colchester | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Pictou | 28 | 0 | 21.93 | 21.93 |
| Antigonish | 6 | 0 | 8.72 | 8.72 |
| Guysborough | 9 | 0 | 63.363 | 63.363 |
| Guysborough | 4 | 0 | 13.763 | 13.763 |
| Saint Mary's | 5 | 0 | 49.6 | 49.6 |
| Cape Breton | 81 | 0 | 163 | 163 |
| Inverness | 4 | 0 | 5.21 | 5.21 |
| Victoria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond | 6 | 0 | 2.51 | 2.51 |
| TOTALS | 247 | 0.2 | 516.5499 | 516.7499 |
| Who Reported the Fires | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Agents | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| DNR Staff | 43 | 252.244 |
| FW Patrol | 1 | 0.3 |
| Other | 41 | 100.0279 |
| Public | 159 | 153.778 |
| RW Patrol | 3 | 8.3 |
| TOTALS | 247 | 514.6499 |
| Fuel Types Burned | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Softwood | Hardwood | Mixedwood | Slash | Open | Silviculture |
| Lunenburg | 1.7 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Queens | 6.4 | 0 | 1.4 | 6.3 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Shelburne | 0.202 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0 |
| Yarmouth | 65.8 | 0.3 | 62.2 | 0 | 31.705 | 0 |
| Digby | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | 0.56 | 0.01 | 0 |
| Annapolis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kings | 0.2 | 0 | 3.41 | 0 | 1.11 | 0 |
| Hants | 1.5 | 0.62 | 3.12 | 2.12 | 2 | 3.64 |
| Hants East | 1.5 | 0 | 2.12 | 1.9 | 2 | 3.64 |
| Hants West | 0 | 0.62 | 1 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 |
| Halifax | 1.612 | 0 | 0.4679 | 5.44 | 6.15 | 0 |
| Halifax East | 1.301 | 0 | 0.2479 | 5.44 | 5.75 | 0 |
| Halifax West | 0.311 | 0 | 0.22 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Cumberland | 0.31 | 0 | 2.93 | 17.98 | 2.75 | 0 |
| Cumberland East | 0.11 | 0 | 2.23 | 8.48 | 2.6 | 0 |
| Cumberland West | 0.2 | 0 | 0.7 | 9.5 | 0.15 | 0 |
| Colchester | 0.3 | 0 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 1 | 0 |
| Pictou | 1.4 | 4.41 | 3.74 | 8.78 | 2.4 | 1.2 |
| Antigonish | 0.08 | 0.2 | 0.63 | 2.06 | 5.75 | 0 |
| Guysborough | 11.6 | 3 | 1.5 | 36.003 | 11.26 | 0 |
| Guysborough | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.003 | 7.46 | 0 |
| Saint Mary's | 5.3 | 3 | 1.5 | 36 | 3.8 | 0 |
| Cape Breton | 3.9 | 0 | 34.2 | 6.3 | 118.6 | 0 |
| Inverness | 0 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.81 | 0 |
| Victoria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond | 1.26 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.39 | 0.56 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 96.284 | 9.53 | 120.2979 | 89.273 | 196.125 | 4.94ha |