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BC wildfire G91534 · 2023 · 32,257 ha

Wildfire G91534, 2023

Wildfire G91534 started on July 6, 2023, caused by lightning. It burned on through the winter and was declared out on August 28, 2024. Its mapped perimeter covers 32,257 ha (323 km²): the 20th-largest of 2023's 119 large fires, and the 63rd-largest in BC since 1990. It reached Northern Rockies, burning 32,257 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

Wildfire G90151, 2005: 5,778 haThe Pesh wildfire, 2012: 12,196 haWildfire G90232, 2014: 1,290 haWildfire G90258, 2015: 2,205 haWildfire G90267, 2015: 6,254 haWildfire G90323, 2015: 3,152 haWildfire G91534, 2017: 4,655 haWildfire G90763, 2018: 3,588 haWildfire G90288, 2023: 768,915 haEkwan Tower wildfire, 2023: 275,175 haNogah Creek wildfire, 2024: 508,473 haWildfire G90399, 2024: 18,597 haWildfire G90382, 2025: 94,057 haWildfire G90400, 2025: 1,763 ha201820242025 N 010 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
Northern Rockies32,257 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

3 later large fires burned into it again.

  1. 2024Wildfire G9039918,597 ha in all1,317 ha shared
  2. 2025Wildfire G9038294,057 ha in all1,486 ha shared
  3. 2025Wildfire G904001,763 ha in all499 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 numberG91534
Season2023
StartedJuly 6, 2023
Declared outAugust 28, 2024
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter32,257 ha (323 km²)
Location, as the province describes itSahdoanah 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 2023: Patry Creek wildfire. Smaller: Stoddart Creek wildfire. Every large fire of 2023 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?