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2026 Wildfire Season

We'd better break out the Wildfire 2026 thread... this weekend should be a doozy ;)


The east coast right now but substitute paid for sun and heat...

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Will put these resources here then for your viewing interest:

CIFFC National Overview Situation Report:
Note this is dependent upon each agency inputs

BC Situation

AB Situation

SK Situation

MB Situation

ON Situation

PQ Situation

NB Situation

NS Situation

NFLD Situation

PEI Situation
Radware Page This is what a quick search pulled but to be fair they are not as active in wildfire due to small size.

YK Situation

NWT Situation

Parks Canada Situation
Need to check each park unfortunately seperately.
 
Had to drive to Abbotsford Monday for a hydraulic part, passed this wildfire at the top of the mountain precisely at Hells Gate canyon. Temp was 32C. That whole Fraser River Valley from Hope to Lytton is a gigantic tinder box, and it has been struck repeatedly with enormous wild fires year after year.

The entire Okanagan is in extreme drought and extreme fire danger, and that’s an understatement.
 

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Had to drive to Abbotsford Monday for a hydraulic part, passed this wildfire at the top of the mountain precisely at Hells Gate canyon. Temp was 32C. That whole Fraser River Valley from Hope to Lytton is a gigantic tinder box, and it has been struck repeatedly with enormous wild fires year after year.

The entire Okanagan is in extreme drought and extreme fire danger, and that’s an understatement.

Campfire bans are starting early this year...

Campfires to be banned across B.C.'s South Coast amid warm spring weather​

More details to come regarding campfire ban, which is expected to start Thursday at noon​


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Had to drive to Abbotsford Monday for a hydraulic part, passed this wildfire at the top of the mountain precisely at Hells Gate canyon. Temp was 32C. That whole Fraser River Valley from Hope to Lytton is a gigantic tinder box, and it has been struck repeatedly with enormous wild fires year after year.
Probably not that entire distance. Cloud formations come in from the west (Pacific), and if they aren't high enough to pass over the mountains, they bottleneck and concentrate at the head of the Fraser Valley, which is Hope. (Travel through during a rainstorm sometime so you can experience the torrential downpours along the part of the highway that is right beside the mountains west of Hope.) From there and a ways further into the passes (Hwy 1, 3, and 5), things generally are not as dry as eastwards. Lytton, however, is a hot spot - has ever been thus. If I had to roughly pick a transition point from reasonably wet to unreasonably dry, I'd nominate Boston Bar. From there eastwards the low country (valleys) are and look parched, but the high plateau is not as extreme.

The underlying chief factor is probably the same as everywhere else in NA - several decades worth of modern era fire suppression. Atypically high temperatures (with or without seasons of less precipitation) just pulls forward and concentrates some of the fires that are going to happen soon enough anyways.
 
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