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Wildfires in Central Okanagan

Central Okanagan, Canada, has had 2 large fires mapped since 2018: 1,342 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 4° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 6° · 67 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 6° · 59 % · 13 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 6° · 50 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 6° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 64 % · 15 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 3° · 82 % · 23 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The census subdivision and its fires

Since 2016

1,342
hectares burned
1.1 %
of the subdivision
2
fires
1,277
km²

How many times has Central Okanagan burned?

Central Okanagan has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2021. The most recent: Central Okanagan fire, June 2021, with 1,020 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,342
cumulative ha
29 Jun 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Canada →

Fires that entered Central Okanagan

  1. 1,020 ha Central Okanagan fire, June 2021 where it started 0.8% of the subdivision · 1,040 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 323 ha Okanagan-Similkameen E fire, July 2018 0.2% of the subdivision · 1,370 ha in total · 17 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from the NBAC of Canada’s CWFIS (Natural Resources Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada); for the current season they are rebuilt from heat detections by GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) until NBAC publishes the year. Census subdivision boundaries come from geoBoundaries/Statistics Canada (StatCan) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per census subdivision is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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