Nova Scotia Wildfire Statistics - 2019
| Wildfire Causes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Specific Cause | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned (Hectares) |
| Campfire | 17 | 37.361 |
| Debris Fire | 25 | 28.08 |
| Grass/Terrain | 9 | 5.36 |
| Incendiary Device | 36 | 63.205 |
| Other | 32 | 6.1 |
| Slash/Land Clearing | 13 | 5.8871 |
| Smoking | 9 | 8.3 |
| Machine | 2 | 0.2 |
| TOTALS | 143 | 154.4931 |
| CAUSES UNDER THE "OTHER" CATEGORY 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Other Causes | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned |
| 'Other' Cause Name | (Hectares) | |
| Ashes | 2 | 0.51 |
| ATV | 2 | 0.11 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0.8 |
| Machine | 8 | 1.81 |
| Other | 7 | 1.35 |
| Powerline | 8 | 0.88 |
| Spontaneous Combustion | 1 | 0.1 |
| Structure | 1 | 0.1 |
| Vehicle | 4 | 0.64 |
| TOTALS | 33 | 6.3 |
| HECTARES BURNED BY COUNTY | ||
|---|---|---|
| County | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned |
| District | (Hectares) | |
| Lunenburg | 6 | 3.16 |
| Queens | 9 | 1.99 |
| Shelburne | 9 | 28.84 |
| Yarmouth | 8 | 14.007 |
| Digby | 7 | 6.35 |
| Annapolis | 1 | 0.12 |
| Kings | 12 | 3.96 |
| Hants | 5 | 1.72 |
| Halifax | 17 | 1.991 |
| Cumberland | 7 | 15.265 |
| Colchester | 2 | 0.6 |
| Pictou | 12 | 3.96 |
| Antigonish | 5 | 5.23 |
| Guysborough | 6 | 17.1 |
| Cape Breton | 26 | 46.5 |
| Inverness | 6 | 1.5 |
| Victoria | 4 | 1.79 |
| Richmond | 1 | 0.41 |
| TOTALS | 143 | 154.493 |
| WHO REPORTED THE FIRES FOR 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Agents | Number of Fires | Total Area Burned |
| (Hectares) | ||
| Natural Resources and Renewables Staff | 8 | 10.63 |
| FW Patrol | 4 | 3.3 |
| Other | 14 | 3.47 |
| Public | 117 | 137.0931 |
| TOTALS | 143 | 154.4931 |
| FIRES BY COUNTY BY MONTH | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTH | |||||||||||||
| REGION | COUNTY | JAN | FEB | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUGUST | SEPT | OCT | TOTAL | |
| WESTERN | YARMOUTH | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 51 |
| SHELBURNE | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||
| DIGBY | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
| ANNAPOLIS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| LUNENBURG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| KINGS | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||
| QUEENS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | ||
| CENTRAL | HANTS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 44 |
| HALIFAX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | ||
| COLCHESTER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| CUMBERLAND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||
| PICTOU | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | ||
| EASTERN | GUYSBOROUGH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 48 |
| ANTIGONISH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| INVERNESS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| RICHMOND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| CAPE BRETON | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | ||
| VICTORIA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| TOTAL | 0 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 44 | 13 | 7 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 143 | ||
| FUELS BURNED 2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Softwood | Hardwood | Mixedwood | Slash | Open | Silviculture |
| Area | Area | Area | Area | Area | Area | |
| (Hectares) | (Hectares) | (Hectares) | (Hectares) | (Hectares) | (Hectares) | |
| Lunenburg | 0.22 | 0 | 2.94 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Queens | 0.11 | 1.07 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.01 |
| Shelburne | 19.44 | 0.26 | 0.42 | 0.17 | 8.55 | 0 |
| Yarmouth | 0 | 0 | 1.767 | 0.0001 | 12.24 | 0 |
| Digby | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.14 | 6.11 | 0 |
| Annapolis | 0 | 0 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kings | 0.76 | 0.7 | 0.25 | 0.6 | 1.65 | 0 |
| Hants | 0.1 | 0 | 0.22 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Halifax | 0.311 | 0 | 1.15 | 0.42 | 0.11 | 0 |
| Cumberland | 0.5 | 0.005 | 0.02 | 1.13 | 13.61 | 0 |
| Colchester | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0 | 0.35 | 0 |
| Pictou | 0.2 | 0.55 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.81 | 0 |
| Antigonish | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 5.1 | 0 |
| Guysborough | 2.1 | 0.5 | 1.21 | 5 | 8.29 | 0 |
| Cape Breton | 0 | 6.15 | 6.24 | 0.8 | 33.31 | 0 |
| Inverness | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1 | 0 |
| Victoria | 0.4 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.5 | 0.88 | 0 |
| Richmond | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 24.171 | 9.335 | 15.797 | 10.9701 | 94.21 | 0.01 |