This indicator measures the average area burned each year by wildfires, based on records of fires since 1919 from the Wildfire Management Branch of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The area burned from year to year is highly variable, and is closely correlated with both temperature and precipitation (Utzig, Boulanger & Holt, 2011). Therefore, data have been analysed using a ten year moving average which measures the average area burned over the previous ten years. The indicator also determines how many fires over five hectares in size have come within two kilometres of the boundaries of the 28 municipalities in our region.