Table 3.3
Forest fire and harvesting area, 1986 to 2019


Table 3.3
Forest fire and harvesting area, by ecoprovince, 1986 to 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Forest fire and harvesting area. The information is grouped by Ecoprovince (appearing as row headers), Code, 1986 to 1995, 1996 to 2005, 2006 to 2015, 2016 to 2019, Total, Fire and Harvest, calculated using km units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Ecoprovince Code 1986 to 1995 1996 to 2005 2006 to 2015 2016 to 2019 TotalTable 3.3 Note 1
Fire Harvest Fire Harvest Fire Harvest Fire Harvest Fire Harvest
km2
Canada Note ...: not applicable 260,903 77,443 188,120 99,984 234,395 80,994 78,092 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 761,510 258,422
Northern Arctic Cordillera 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Southern Arctic Cordillera 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Sverdrup Islands 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Ellesmere Basin 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Victoria Lowlands 2.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Parry Channel Plateau 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Boothia–Foxe Shield 2.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Baffin Uplands 2.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Foxe–Boothia Lowlands 2.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Amundsen Lowlands 3.1 140 0 19 0 124 0 3 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 286 0
Keewatin Lowlands 3.2 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 28 1
Ungava–Belcher 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0 0
Mackenzie Foothills 4.1 6,569 8 3,605 9 2,683 19 1,435 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 14,292 37
Great Bear Lowlands 4.2 42,506 24 10,851 28 15,919 103 2,864 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 72,140 155
Hay–Slave Lowlands 4.3 3,943 825 6,314 1,188 17,063 1,167 3,024 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 30,344 3,180
Western Taiga Shield 5.1 43,593 10 28,715 31 41,986 74 9,853 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 124,147 114
Eastern Taiga 5.2 23,723 16 14,890 4 3,413 30 722 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 42,748 50
Labrador Uplands 5.3 1,951 10 2,602 2 4,327 24 109 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 8,990 36
Whale River Lowland 5.4 72 1 3 0 262 0 31 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 367 1
Western Boreal Shield 6.1 62,596 649 29,849 1,915 62,716 922 9,216 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 164,378 3,486
Mid-Boreal Shield 6.2 16,478 16,162 17,329 19,399 13,631 10,724 6,277 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 53,716 46,285
Eastern Boreal Shield 6.3 6,043 5,989 10,584 9,724 11,603 6,252 361 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 28,591 21,965
Newfoundland 6.4 908 1,528 114 1,906 5 1,106 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 1,026 4,540
Lake of the Woods 6.5 901 2,287 498 3,021 620 2,516 147 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 2,166 7,824
Southern Boreal Shield 6.6 1,482 9,631 880 12,503 2,706 9,409 473 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 5,542 31,543
Appalachian–Acadian Highlands 7.1 414 6,448 33 6,759 4 5,232 2 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 453 18,439
Northumberland Lowlands 7.2 438 2,249 10 3,129 1 2,365 7 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 457 7,743
Fundy Uplands 7.3 32 3,701 18 5,376 39 4,426 17 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 106 13,503
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands 8.1 1 320 34 373 5 342 3 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 42 1,035
Huron–Erie Plains 8.2 0 52 8 70 1 39 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 8 161
Boreal Foothills 9.1 618 3,533 2,614 5,421 1,431 6,059 1,571 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 6,235 15,013
Central Boreal Plains 9.2 15,158 4,039 16,974 8,215 26,194 7,440 13,150 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 71,476 19,694
Eastern Boreal Plains 9.3 7,147 681 810 718 1,192 734 625 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 9,775 2,132
Eastern Prairies 10.1 86 70 57 104 35 61 2 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 179 235
Parkland Prairies 10.2 76 157 92 488 32 376 15 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 215 1,021
Central Grassland 10.3 14 54 230 294 131 319 126 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 502 668
Northern Yukon Mountains 11.1 83 0 72 0 197 0 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 358 0
Old Crow–Eagle Plains 11.2 557 0 230 0 116 0 429 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 1,332 0
Ogilvie Mountains 11.3 1,210 0 6,544 1 854 1 1,883 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 10,492 2
Mackenzie–Selwyn Mountains 11.4 1,150 6 1,671 5 460 3 236 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 3,517 15
Wrangel Mountains 12.1 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 23 0
Northern Boreal Cordillera 12.2 9,516 123 10,286 139 6,738 77 4,024 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 30,564 339
Southern Boreal Cordillera 12.3 772 161 1,123 155 1,549 43 1,742 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 5,186 359
Western Boreal Cordillera 12.4 1,986 18 4,976 16 1,918 5 1,006 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 9,886 39
Georgia Depression 13.1 5 846 1 1,218 20 1,406 9 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 35 3,470
Southern Coastal Mountains 13.2 179 3,695 78 2,476 378 2,382 370 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 1,006 8,553
Northern Coastal Mountains 13.3 9 17 37 9 0 9 1 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 48 35
Northern Montane Cordillera 14.1 238 4,089 20 4,121 1,459 4,705 1,069 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 2,786 12,914
Central Montane Cordillera 14.2 162 4,296 865 5,243 5,095 5,446 12,507 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 18,628 14,985
Southern Montane Cordillera 14.3 220 2,222 1,232 2,601 964 3,574 1,563 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 3,979 8,397
Columbia Montane Cordillera 14.4 255 3,436 2,065 3,254 1,079 3,508 2,226 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 5,624 10,198
Hudson Bay Coastal Plains 15.1 248 0 1,086 0 438 0 116 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 1,888 1
Hudson–James Lowlands 15.2 9,424 90 10,677 68 6,980 95 870 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 27,951 253
.. not available for a specific reference period
... not applicable
Note 1

Spatial data on harvesting from the Canada Landsat Disturbance dataset are not yet available for the years subsequent to 2015. See the National Forestry Database (https://nfdp.ccfm.org/en/data/harvest.php) for annual data on forest area harvested by province and territory.

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Notes: Harvest data are identified by 30 m Landsat remote sensing. Fire data are taken from the National Burned Area Composite, part of the Fire Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System, based on the integration of data from fine and coarse resolution satellite data from Natural Resources Canada and Provincial, Territorial and Parks Canada Agencies. These data differ from the harvesting and burned area totals reported in the National Forestry Database, which are based on different methodologies.
Sources: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, 2020, National Burned Area Composite (NBAC), http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart (accessed October 26, 2020); Guindon, L., et al., 2017, Canada Landsat Disturbance (CanLaD): a Canada-wide Landsat-based 30-m resolution product of fire and harvest detection and attribution since 1984, https://doi.org/10.23687/add1346b-f632-4eb9-a83d-a662b38655ad (accessed July 20, 2020); Data file downloaded from https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nfis-change_eng.html (accessed July 20, 2020).
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