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BC wildfire G90939 · 2024 · 14,171 ha

Wildfire G90939, 2024

Wildfire G90939 started on July 10, 2024, caused by lightning. It burned on through the winter and was declared out on March 31, 2025. Its mapped perimeter covers 14,171 ha (142 km²): the 10th-largest of 2024's 50 large fires, and the 132nd-largest in BC since 1990. All of it was in Stikine Region. The nearest municipality, Northern Rockies, is roughly 285 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 R90026, 1992: 2,549 haWildfire G60179, 1998: 4,074 haSolitary Lake wildfire, 2012: 3,011 haWadin Creek wildfire, 2015: 49,545 haWildfire R92132, 2018: 156,775 haWildfire G92947, 2023: 12,806 haWildfire G92348, 2024: 1,644 ha20232024 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
Stikine Region14,171 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.

  1. 2018Wildfire R92132156,775 ha in all895 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 numberG90939
Season2024
StartedJuly 10, 2024
Declared outMarch 31, 2025
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter14,171 ha (142 km²)
Location, as the province describes itSolitary Lake

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.

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