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BC wildfire G80997 · 2021 · 6,417 ha

Wildfire G80997, 2021

Wildfire G80997 started on June 28, 2021, caused by lightning. It was declared out on September 27, 2021. Its mapped perimeter covers 6,417 ha: the 28th-largest of 2021's 59 large fires, and the 257th-largest in BC since 1990. All of it was in Peace River, Electoral Area B. The nearest municipality, Hudson's Hope, is roughly 175 km away; the fire covered a small fraction of 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 G80353, 2006: 5,068 haKahta Creek wildfire, 2018: 1,577 haDonnie Creek wildfire, 2023: 619,073 haPocket Knife Creek wildfire, 2025: 149,505 ha2025 N 05 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
Peace River, Electoral Area B6,417 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 later large fire burned into it again.

  1. 2025Pocket Knife Creek wildfire149,505 ha in all6,415 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 numberG80997
Season2021
StartedJune 28, 2021
Declared outSeptember 27, 2021
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter6,417 ha
Location, as the province describes itBuckinghorse

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 2021: Wildfire C51290. Smaller: Trozzo Creek wildfire. Every large fire of 2021 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?