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British Columbia Wildfires: Live Fire Map

28
Active fires
670K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
24
Typical air quality · worst 70 near Vernon Science Centre
Current situation

British Columbia

Critical
Large fires (1K+)
13
New fires (48h)
0
Evac zones
12
County emergency managers currently have 7 zones under Evacuation Orders and 5 under Evacuation Warnings. Every active zone is listed and shaded on the map below.
British Columbia currently has 28 active wildfires burning a combined 669,799 acres. 13 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the C40983 fire at 409,971 acres.
Typical air quality across the province's 56 monitoring stations is good (AQI 24); the worst reading right now is AQI 70 (moderate) near Vernon Science Centre.
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Bold outline: British Columbia boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in British Columbia

Live evacuation feed coverage
Province-wide
Province-wide feed

EmergencyInfoBC publishes evacuation zones for all of British Columbia, so every zone it posts appears here and on the map above.

1 official source, checked every 5 minutes
  • EmergencyInfoBC

Active zones 12

If you are in a zone under an order, leave now and follow official instructions.

  • OrderSumas First Nation - 37005, 36901, 36909, 36919 Kilgard Road
  • OrderOkanagan Indian Band IR 1
  • OrderWhispering Pines Clinton IR 3
  • OrderSaw Creek Wildfire
  • OrderShackan Indian Band
  • OrderShackan IR 11 Lot 40 and 44

Every zone is also shaded on the map above. Zone codes are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. To check a specific address, use the fire-near-me search on the homepage.

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Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

33% of an average year
Burning right now670K acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)2.0M acres

Fires currently burning in British Columbia cover 670K acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 2.0M acres here.

Source: Canadian National Fire Database, large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires in British Columbia

Latest fire updates in British Columbia

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. V10755 Fire · Grew 132,221 acres in 68 days to 172,245 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  2. V10742 Fire · Grew 15,689 acres in 68 days to 23,581 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

Wildfire history in British Columbia

Large fires (200+ hectares) since 1990, Canadian National Fire Database.

2023
Worst year · 7.0M acres
42
Large fires / year · average
1,438
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
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Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
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June and July account for 67% of the acreage burned in British Columbia in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
1102191990: 32 fires19901991: 22 fires1992: 19 fires1993: 4 fires1994: 19 fires1995: 11 fires19951996: 9 fires1997: 2 fires1998: 39 fires1999: 12 fires2000: 8 fires20002001: 9 fires2002: 7 fires2003: 82 fires2004: 58 fires2005: 16 fires20052006: 66 fires2007: 17 fires2008: 11 fires2009: 85 fires2010: 64 fires20102011: 2 fires2012: 30 fires2013: 13 fires2014: 40 fires2015: 75 fires20152016: 23 fires2017: 74 fires2018: 169 fires2019: 14 fires2020: 7 fires20202021: 117 fires2022: 63 fires2023: 219 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, British Columbia averaged 1.9M acres burned and 84 fires per year. That is 352% up in acreage and 139% up in fire count versus the 1990–2018 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in British Columbia? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in British Columbia

  • 2023 Holdover DONNIE CREEK20231,529,762 acres
  • 2023 Holdover G902882023716,787 acres
  • 2023 Holdover Ekwan Tower2023679,675 acres
  • 2023 Holdover G906282023428,365 acres
  • 2023 Holdover Big Creek2023412,312 acres

Fires near a city in British Columbia

VancouverVictoriaKelownaKamloopsPrince George

Nearby provinces

Quebec (41)Northwest Territories (16)Ontario (8)Alberta (7)Yukon (4)Saskatchewan (1)