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Wildfires in Kelowna

Kelowna, Canada, has had one large fire mapped since 2023: 652 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 23 Low 11° · 33 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 7° · 80 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 8° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 7° · 82 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 7° · 73 % · 22 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

652
hectares burned
2.5 %
of the subdivision
1
fires
261
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kelowna

  1. 652 ha Kelowna fire, July 2023 where it started 2.5% of the subdivision · 12,969 ha in total · 79 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).