What causes forest fires…Climate change, humans or lighting? (Updated September 2025)

September 5, 2025

Government is spraying our forests with GLYPHOSATE, also known as RoundUp to kill underbrush which then turns to highly combustible, dry, dead kindling for fires to use as fuel and spread quickly. Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees.

In June 2023, the British Columbia Forest Practices Board (BCFPB) published Forest and Fire Management in BC: Toward Landscape Resilience, a special report that opens with this astonishing acknowledgement of culpability:

“The way forests and fire have been managed in BC over the last 100 years has increased the scale and intensity of current wildfires and decreased landscape resilience. In 2017, 2018, and 2021, BC experienced its three largest wildfire seasons in 102 years of recorded fire, climate, and weather history, affecting 3.4 million hectares of land. If the way forests and fire are managed doesn’t change, BC will face many more catastrophic wildfire seasons.”

Wildfires has massively decrease since 1926

June 15, 2025

Forest fire season starts with a bang with 95% started by humans AND still Canada has no fire bomber planes coming anytime time soon…… we are talking many years away.

September 17, 2024 – What is happening in California and its fires?

February 2, 2024

First of all most forest fires (over 90%) are caused by humans, either by mistake or on purpose. The rest are caused by lighting strikes. Secondly forest fires are on the decline. Unfortunately forest fire data only goes back to 1980 when they started to record them. So we do not have a very long timeline to analyze, but the climate alarmists sure love to blame forest fires on climate change!

Since 1980 the trend has been less fires every year. The below chart is from Environment Canada, the government.

Source: https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb

USA Statistics

For some reason, even though we have less fires the media coverage has skyrocketed!

Headlines read one way while the details are in the fine print. Seems everything is attributed to Climate Change nowadays! Most fires are caused by humans and the rest are by lighting strikes. As long as there has been forests, there have been forest fires. More and more fires are set by climate change activists who are unhappy with the fact that we have less fires now than ever.

“Tingley said – like most forest fires – were likely “human-caused,” as there were no lightning strikes in the area recently, though DNRR is investigating what the specific causes were.”

The department noted that most fires are caused by human activity and just five per cent by lightning strikes. In British Columbia, lightning and “a rare chance of other natural causes” are the root of 60 per cent of fires, compared to human activity starting around 40 per cent.

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