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BC wildfire G90263 · 2015 · 13,499 ha
Wildfire G90263, 2015
Wildfire G90263 started on June 24, 2015, caused by lightning. It was declared out on July 24, 2015. Its mapped perimeter covers 13,499 ha (135 km²): the 6th-largest of 2015's 38 large fires, and the 140th-largest in BC since 1990. It reached Northern Rockies, burning 13,499 ha there, under 1% of the mountain resort municipality's land. The whole fire covered a small fraction of the land area of Northern Rockies.
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Where it burned
This fireOther large fires since 1990
Outline simplified by us from the BC Wildfire Service's perimeter; not for locating a lot. Check a lot with the search above.
Sources: BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Current, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Incident Locations – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Locations – Current, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on October 2, 2026; 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Outlines simplified and places measured by PlaceDossier.
Places it reached
| Place | Burned there | Of the place's land |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Rockies | 13,499 ha | under 1% |
Measured by us: the fire's mapped perimeter laid over Statistics Canada's boundaries of each municipality and electoral area. A place is listed when the fire burned any of a municipality, 25 ha or more of an electoral area, or a twentieth of the fire.
Burned before or since
2 later large fires burned into it again.
- 2023Wildfire G90288768,915 ha in all1,797 ha shared
- 2024Nogah Creek wildfire508,473 ha in all336 ha shared
Overlaps measured by us on the mapped perimeters, which are the outer edges: where two overlap, the ground may have burned once, twice or not at all.
The record
| Fire number | G90263 |
|---|---|
| Season | 2015 |
| Started | June 24, 2015 |
| Declared out | July 24, 2015 |
| Cause | Lightning |
| Area inside the perimeter | 13,499 ha (135 km²) |
| Location, as the province describes it | 9km North of Kli Creek |
Past fire is history, not a forecast. The chance of fire on a lot today depends on what the record doesn't show: the forest and grass around it, the slope, what has been thinned or burned since, and how far it is from a fire hall.
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Sources: BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Current, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Incident Locations – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Locations – Current, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on October 2, 2026. Outlines simplified and places measured by PlaceDossier.
Larger in 2015: Wildfire R90045. Smaller: Elaho wildfire. Every large fire of 2015 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?