BC Data Catalogue
BC Wildfire Fire Fuel Types - Public
Published by BC Wildfire Service
About this dataset
This polygon layer classifies the entire province into fuel types from the Canadian Fire Behaviour Prediction System for the purpose of modeling wildfire behaviour. The source data is primarily from BC Vegetation Resource Inventory (VRI) polyons, using an algorithm based on vegetation attributes (species, tree height, density, biogeoclimatic zone, etc.). Where VRI data was unavailable (Tree Farm Licenses, etc.), data from the Canadian Forest Service national fuel grid was used. This layer has had all private land masked out. This layer was updated using 2023 VRI data in 2024.