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BC wildfire K71535 · 2023 · 11,248 ha

Casper Creek wildfire, 2023

The Casper Creek wildfire started on July 10, 2023, caused by lightning. It was declared out on October 20, 2023. Its mapped perimeter covers 11,248 ha (112 km²): the 42nd-largest of 2023's 119 large fires, and the 168th-largest in BC since 1990. 58% of it was in Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area B. The nearest municipality, Lillooet, is roughly 25 km away; the fire covered about 4 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 K70109, 2002: 1,048 haWhitecap Creek wildfire, 2004: 2,104 haMount McLean wildfire, 2009: 3,652 haHell Creek wildfire, 2009: 2,042 haSeton Portage wildfire, 2009: 1,753 haMckay Creek wildfire, 2021: 44,964 ha2002200420092009 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
Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area B6,527 ha2%
Squamish-Lillooet, Electoral Area A4,558 ha1%

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.

  1. 2004Whitecap Creek wildfire2,104 ha in all897 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 numberK71535
Season2023
StartedJuly 10, 2023
Declared outOctober 20, 2023
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter11,248 ha (112 km²)

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: Rossmoore Lake wildfire. Smaller: Wildfire R21217. Every large fire of 2023 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?