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BC wildfire C12328 · 2018 · 8,278 ha

Wildfire C12328, 2018

Wildfire C12328 started on August 1, 2018, caused by lightning. It burned on through the winter and was declared out on March 20, 2019. Its mapped perimeter covers 8,278 ha: the 29th-largest of 2018's 84 large fires, and the 208th-largest in BC since 1990. 99% of it was in Cariboo, Electoral Area I. The nearest municipality, Quesnel, is roughly 68 km away; the fire covered about 2 times the land area of it.

A lot's report shows every mapped fire on it and within 2 km, with the lot drawn on the map.

Where it burned

Wildfire C10157, 2006: 8,061 haPelican Lake Complex wildfire, 2010: 35,506 haWildfire C10209, 2010: 2,450 haPlateau wildfire, 2017: 520,885 haWildfire C11937, 2018: 13,433 haBranch Road wildfire, 2023: 1,298 haTeepee Lake wildfire, 2023: 7,864 ha2010 N 02 km

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

PlaceBurned thereOf the place's land
Cariboo, Electoral Area I8,212 haunder 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

1 earlier large fire had burned part of this ground, and 1 later large fire burned into it again.

  1. 2010Pelican Lake Complex wildfire35,506 ha in all995 ha shared
  2. 2023Teepee Lake wildfire7,864 ha in all632 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 numberC12328
Season2018
StartedAugust 1, 2018
Declared outMarch 20, 2019
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter8,278 ha
Location, as the province describes itEast of Blackwater River

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 2018: Wildfire N11886. Smaller: Wildfire R11683. Every large fire of 2018 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?