bc_fire_incidents_history

Look up historical fire incidents from BC Wildfire Service's Fire Incident Locations - Historical layer on DataBC, read live: by year or range of years, cause, incident type, name or place description, fire number, minimum size, or distance from a point (nearest first). Returns fire number, year, name, place description, type, cause, response, ignition and out dates, size in hectares, fire centre and location. This layer lists every incident BC Wildfire recorded, so most rows are small: filter fire_type 'fire' for wildfires (the others are nuisance_fire, smoke_chase, duplicate, unknown, field_activity, field_activity_other, prescribed_fire, training, agency_assist, fuels_management, other_emergency, flood, landslide). A fire number can be given alone or as a label such as 2021-C10784. Not current-season fires (use wildfire_status) and no perimeters (use bc_fire_perimeters_history).

Cost: 3 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• year (integer, optional): min 1900, max 2100
• year_from (integer, optional): min 1900, max 2100
• year_to (integer, optional): min 1900, max 2100
• cause (lightning, person, unknown, optional)
• fire_type (fire, nuisance_fire, smoke_chase, duplicate, unknown, field_activity, field_activity_other, prescribed_fire, training, agency_assist, fuels_management, other_emergency, flood, landslide, optional)
• name (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• min_hectares (number, optional): min 0, max 10000000
• fire_number (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• radius_km (number, optional): min 0.5, max 200
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 20

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/bc_fire_incidents_history \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool bc_fire_incidents_history with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"bc_fire_incidents_history","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.