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Fires Near Kelowna, BC

Live wildfire tracking around Kelowna: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official Canadian sources.

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Fires within 100 mi
75 mi
Nearest fire
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Kelowna, BC

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest zone under an Evacuation Order is about 29 miles away.

Evacuation status

Kelowna, BC is not inside an active evacuation zone, but 4 zones are active within 50 miles:

  • Evacuation OrderGreata Ranch to Summerland Boundary on Highway 9718 mi away
  • Evacuation OrderSummerland19 mi away
  • Evacuation OrderFaulder, Darke Lake, Meadow Valley, Greata Ranch21 mi away

Zone status from EmergencyInfoBC, refreshed every 5 minutes; every active zone is also shaded on the map below. Zone codes like Greata Ranch to Summerland Boundary on Highway 97 are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. Counties only publish a zone once they activate it, so your address shows a zone code here the moment one applies to it.

There are currently 88 active fires within 300 miles of Kelowna, BC, including 2 within 25 miles and 19 within 100 miles. None are inside Kelowna city limits. The most significant is the Sinlahekin fire, 82 miles away at 166,007 acres, 93% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Kelowna, BC in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Kelowna KLO Road monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 23).

House pin: Kelowna, BC. Bold outline: Kelowna city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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4 acres
≤ 50 mi
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4 acres
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250K acres
≤ 200 mi
66
668K acres
≤ 300 mi
88
770K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burning right now4 acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)7.6K acres

Fires currently burning within 25 miles of Kelowna cover 4 acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 7.6K acres here. Canadian records count large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires near Kelowna, BC

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Kelowna

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

  1. Second Street Fire · Grew 149 acres in 2 hours to 1,149 acres

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Second Street Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Stevens Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N410TD)

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Nine Canyon Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Sisi Fire · Grew 117 acres in 23 hours to 4,275 acres

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  6. Porcupine Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. King Fire · Grew 131 acres in 12 days to 3,409 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Goat Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Sisi Fire · New perimeter mapped at 4,169 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  10. Marmot Peak Fire · New perimeter mapped at 59 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

Historic fires near Kelowna

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Sinlahekin
2026
166,007 acres · 83 mi away
Tunk Block
2015
165,885 acres · 95 mi away
Okanogan Complex
2015
145,282 acres · 96 mi away · 3 deaths
Diamond Creek
2017
128,272 acres · 82 mi away
Crater Creek
2023
114,914 acres · 56 mi away
Tripod Complex
2006
113,011 acres · 99 mi away

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