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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.

7
Fires within 100 mi
82 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Kelowna, BC

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • A zone about 29 miles away remains under a standing Order from a past incident, last updated by officials on Oct 6; no active fire is nearby, and it does not affect this location.
  • Wind at the Sinlahekin fire (82 mi away) is blowing 8 mph N, roughly toward your location.

Evacuation status

Kelowna, BC is not inside an active evacuation zone, but a zone is active within 50 miles:

  • Evacuation OrderOkanagan Indian Band IR 129 mi away

Zone status from EmergencyInfoBC, refreshed every 5 minutes; every active zone is also shaded on the map below. Zone codes like Okanagan Indian Band IR 1 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 51 active fires within 300 miles of Kelowna, BC, including 7 within 100 miles. None are inside Kelowna city limits. The most significant is the V10755 fire, 87 miles away at 172,245 acres. Wind at the Sinlahekin fire is blowing 8 mph N, roughly toward Kelowna, BC. 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 32).

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
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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no fires
≤ 100 mi
7
384K acres
≤ 200 mi
34
1.0M acres
≤ 300 mi
51
1.1M acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burning right now0 acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)7.6K acres

Fires currently burning within 25 miles of Kelowna cover 0 acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 7.6K acres here.

Source: Canadian National Fire Database, 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. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. King Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    33 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  5. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 65%

    3 days ago · November 8, 2026

  6. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    4 days ago · November 7, 2026

  7. Silver Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  8. Silver Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  9. Border Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  10. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    6 days ago · November 5, 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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