'It's not one thing that's causing these really bad fire seasons,' said Jen Baron, a PhD candidate at UBC's department of forest and conservation sciences. 'At a broad scale, it's really the interaction between the climate and the fuels that are driving these changes.'
The Eagle Bluff Wildfire burns behind a home after in Osoyoos, B.C., on July 30, 2023. Hot, dry and windy weather linked to climate change has played an outsized role in B.C.'s recent record-breaking wildfire seasons, but it's just one of several factors at play, according to experts.
"They're traditionally thought of as being more climate-limited systems in the sense that there's always a lot of fuel to burn, but it was very rarely hot and dry enough for it to burn," Baron said. He points to this year's above-average heat, the ongoing drought across the province and increased lightning as major contributors to the fires that have already burned more than 16,000 square kilometres in B.C., with weeks or possibly even months still left to go in the season.Flannigan likes to talk about wildfire as a recipe with three necessary ingredients: fuel, ignition and weather.
People play on the water in Kelowna City Park in Kelowna, B.C., amid heavy wildfire smoke on Aug. 16, 2023.
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