Nova Scotia Wildfire Statistics - 2016
| Fires by Month | ||
|---|---|---|
| Month | Number of Fires | Hectares |
| January | 0 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0 |
| March | 1 | 2.49 |
| April | 106 | 231.902 |
| May | 61 | 51.001 |
| June | 27 | 26.428 |
| July | 15 | 12.03 |
| August | 28 | 426.15 |
| September | 22 | 4.721 |
| October | 4 | .25 |
| November | 0 | 0 |
| December | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 274 | 754.972 |
| Wildfire Causes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Specific Cause | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| Campfire | 23 | 21.241 |
| Debris Fire | 38 | 12.017 |
| Exhaust System | 3 | 3.2 |
| Grass/Terrain | 14 | 13.71 |
| Incendiary Device | 97 | 579.58 |
| Other | 75 | 113.94 |
| Playing With Fire | 1 | 1.1 |
| Slash/Land Clearing | 18 | 10.984 |
| Smoking | 5 | 2.59 |
| TOTALS | 274 | 754.972 |
| Other Causes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cause | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| Ashes | 8 | 0.87 |
| ATV | 4 | 43.9 |
| Blueberry | 2 | 3.2 |
| Lightning | 11 | 16.12 |
| Machine | 4 | 13 |
| Other | 25 | 30.02 |
| Accidental | 1 | 0.03 |
| Burn Barrel | 1 | 0.04 |
| Burning Barrel | 3 | 0.12 |
| Camp Fire | 2 | 0.45 |
| Grinder | 1 | 1.02 |
| Land clearing | 2 | 0.15 |
| Paper | 1 | 0.1 |
| Smoking | 2 | 17.4 |
| unknown | 6 | 6.3 |
| Powerline | 12 | 3.77 |
| Structure | 5 | 2.06 |
| Vehicle | 4 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 75 | 113.94 |
| Hectares Burned by County | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned | ||
| Lunenburg | 14 | 19.45 | ||
| Queens | 16 | 17.8 | ||
| Shelburne | 14 | 19.102 | ||
| Yarmouth | 19 | 93.86 | ||
| Digby | 19 | 9.5 | ||
| Annapolis | 14 | 395 | ||
| Kings | 22 | 10.23 | ||
| Hants | 21 | 17.569 | ||
| Halifax | 28 | 13.271 | ||
| Cumberland | 15 | 25.89 | ||
| Colchester | 3 | 2.42 | ||
| Pictou | 24 | 35.15 | ||
| Antigonish | 0 | 0 | ||
| Guysborough | 3 | 0.2 | ||
| Cape Breton | 60 | 98.41 | ||
| Inverness | 1 | 0.01 | ||
| Victoria | 1 | 0.1 | ||
| Richmond | 0 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 274 | 757.962 | ||
| Who Reported the Fires | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Agents | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| DNR Staff | 23 | 105.29 |
| Aerial Detection | 16 | 41.16 |
| Other | 43 | 72.04 |
| Public | 189 | 172.272 |
| Helicopter | 3 | 364.21 |
| TOTALS | 274 | 754.972 |
| Fuel Types Burned | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Softwood | Hardwood | Mixedwood | Slash | Open | Silviculture |
| Lunenburg | 8.7 | 0 | 10.55 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Queens | 3.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 9.9 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
| Shelburne | 0.231 | 0 | 4.039 | 1.95 | 12.882 | 0 |
| Yarmouth | 7.45 | 0 | 46.69 | 3.4 | 36.32 | 0 |
| Digby | 0.28 | 0.22 | 3.31 | 3 | 2.69 | 0 |
| Annapolis | 268 | 0.9 | 113.51 | 8.6 | 1 | 0 |
| Kings | 0.04 | 1.1 | 4.79 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0 |
| Hants | 0.021 | 0,05 | 0.558 | 2.04 | 14.9 | 0 |
| Hants East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 14.8 | 0 |
| Hants West | 0.021 | 0.05 | 0.558 | 0.64 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Halifax | 0.48 | 0.2 | 5.571 | 4.21 | 2.81 | 0 |
| Halifax East | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.11 | 4.11 | 1.74 | 0 |
| Halifax West | 0.18 | 0.1 | 5.461 | 0.1 | 1.07 | 0 |
| Cumberland | 2.3 | 0.2 | 12.1 | 9.55 | 1.74 | 0 |
| Cumberland East | 1.6 | 0 | 6.4 | 8.25 | 0.64 | 0 |
| Cumberland West | 0.7 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0 |
| Colchester | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.92 | 0 | 0 |
| Pictou | 12.7 | 3.25 | 3.53 | 0.03 | 10.34 | 5.3 |
| Antigonish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guysborough | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0 |
| Guysborough | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0 |
| Saint Mary's | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cape Breton | 2.45 | 8.4 | 15.7 | 0.91 | 70.95 | 0 |
| Inverness | 0 | 1 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Victoria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 305.752 | 15.52 | 221.958 | 46.62 | 157.222 | 7.9 |