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However, a closer inspection of the data show that there was a sharp increase in destruction caused by forest fires in the first half of this period, and a general decline in the second half. [...] This underscores the point that over the past three decades, there has been a declining trend in numbers of fires and the total area burned at the national level in Canada, a pattern consistent with that observed globally. [...] They looked at the impact of the 2014 fire season in the Northwest Territories, which burned the largest area on record. [...] We will show that, although there has been an upward trend in forest fires over the six decades of reliable data from 1959 to 2019, there was a sharp increase in the first fraserinstitute.org 2"•"Trends in Canadian Forest Fires, 1959-2019"•"Murphy half combined with a decline in fire activity during the second half of the period. [...] Yet because we only have the data for two of the years in the range from 1962 to 1986, and because the data are generally less reliable the further back we go, it is unclear how to assess the fire record in Nova Scotia.