Weather & climate intelligence
Evacuation orders & alerts 0 national · 11 British Columbia tap to expand
Mean of the inputs measured for the province, each scaled 0–100% against a fixed ceiling: fire weather index (FWI) 30, peak wind 50 km/h, peak temperature 10–35°C, hotspots over 3 days 300. Needs at least 2 inputs. A reading of current conditions, not a forecast.
Coverage from the climate and science beats, scored on the same lean scale as everything else on this site. A band here reads the framing of one story against the rest of its cluster — it is not a verdict on the underlying science.
Climate and science stories are the beat where lean scoring is least reliable, because an outlet can be scrupulous about the research and pointed about the policy in the same paragraph. Read the cluster.
Forecast accuracy
Every Environment Canada city forecast we store is written down when it is issued and compared with what the stations actually measured. A forecaster that never publishes its misses is not a forecaster, so the misses are here too. Full accuracy report →
Degrees Celsius of error on the daily high. Checked over the 64 days we have observed so far. Each bar carries its own sample size, so a thin lead time is visible. The dashed line is persistence — predicting that the target day will be like the day the forecast was issued. A green bar beats it; a red bar does not.
Coverage dates describe records and capture attempts retained here. They do not establish when an operational recipient received the information. Cadence is measured from this archive’s recent attempts, not presented as a service guarantee.
Historical evidence
Review captured alerts, fire-weather station records and satellite thermal anomalies. Filter by when a record was first retrieved to ask what this archive held by a given time. That does not establish when an operational team received it.
Date/time filters use UTC; the source-time end is exclusive. Geographic bounds use west/south/east/north and search point-coordinate feeds only. Times below are shown in UTC; missing timestamps remain blank.
Geolocated records from the current archive results appear on the Canada map above. Markers retain source coordinates; a satellite thermal anomaly is not, by itself, a confirmed fire. Records without valid source coordinates are listed but are not placed on the map.