BC forests, three records, one timeline.
Choose a story. Harvest: every 11 by 13 km square rises with the share cut since 1900. Fire: every mapped fire since 1917 burns in its year and stays as a scar. Satellite: what the satellite saw lost since 2001. Press play, or pick a chapter.
2025
Harvested since 1900, ha0
Cut that year, ha0
Planted that year, ha0
Burned that year, ha0
Satellite: tree cover lost, ha0
Old forest in that cutn/a
Each column: one square, what happened next
- Cut in the last three years
- Planted
- Cut, not recorded as planted
Mapped fire perimeters
- Burning in the year shown
- Burned in the last few years
- Older scars
Seen from space
- Tree cover lost in the year shown
- Lost in earlier years
- Tree cover in 2000
CutPlantedBurnedSatellite era
Two records and a fire map, one forest
Reading the records...
- Harvest record
- RESULTS openings, Province of British Columbia: the gross area of each logging or salvage opening, by the year its disturbance started.
- Satellite tree cover loss
- Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA via Global Forest Watch: canopy over 30% removed at the scale of a Landsat pixel, about 30 m, whatever the cause: harvest, fire, disease or storm.
- Area burned
- BC Wildfire Service: the mapped size of every fire over 10 ha, unburned islands and open ground inside the line included.