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BC wildfire K41561 · 2021 · 5,204 ha

Bunting Road wildfire, 2021

The Bunting Road wildfire started on July 6, 2021, caused by lightning. It was declared out on November 15, 2021. Its mapped perimeter covers 5,204 ha: the 31st-largest of 2021's 59 large fires, and the 300th-largest in BC since 1990. All of it was in North Okanagan, Electoral Area F. The nearest municipality, Enderby, is roughly 32 km away; the fire covered about 12 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 K41813, 2018: 1,370 haStar Creek wildfire, 2021: 1,354 ha 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
North Okanagan, Electoral Area F5,199 ha3%

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

No other fire of 1,000 ha or more since 1990 overlaps this one by 50 ha or more.

The record

Fire numberK41561
Season2021
StartedJuly 6, 2021
Declared outNovember 15, 2021
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter5,204 ha

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.

Before you buy or build, ask the local government or fire department about the fire protection area, FireSmart work and the distance to a fire hall, and ask your insurer what they need.

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 G72511. Smaller: Mowhokam Creek wildfire. Every large fire of 2021 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?