Fig. 7: Fire size and timing during the 2023 fire season.
From: Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada
a Left: number of fires > 50k ha for each fire size class for historical period (1986–2022, annual mean) and for 2023; Right: proportion of total area burned for each fire size class for 1986–2022 and 2023; b Fire size as function of potential spread days (extreme fire weather days; FWI95) for western Canada (west of −85 deg longitude) and eastern Canada (east of −85 degrees longitude). c Distribution of fire sizes by start month for all fires > 1000 ha. (colored outliers correspond to fires > 100,000 ha). d Cumulative daily area burned for fires starting in each month between May–October.
