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BC wildfire C11659 · 2025 · 57,886 ha

Itcha Lake wildfire, 2025

The Itcha Lake wildfire started on August 25, 2025, caused by lightning. It was declared out on November 18, 2025. Its mapped perimeter covers 57,886 ha (579 km²): the 5th-largest of 2025's 39 large fires, and the 37th-largest in BC since 1990. All of it was in Cariboo, Electoral Area J. The nearest municipality, Fraser Lake, is roughly 145 km away; the fire covered about 107 times the land area of it.

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Where it burned

Corkscrew Basin wildfire, 2009: 1,738 haCorkscrew Basin wildfire, 2010: 6,035 haWildfire C50301, 2010: 6,034 haTsacha Lake wildfire, 2010: 13,093 haItcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park wildfire, 2013: 1,208 haEuchiniko Lakes wildfire, 2014: 21,090 haChelaslie River wildfire, 2014: 133,101 haPlateau wildfire, 2017: 520,885 haWildfire C11837, 2018: 12,321 haWildfire C12594, 2018: 10,542 haCorkscrew Creek wildfire, 2023: 1,282 haSatah Mountain wildfire, 2023: 6,652 haTsetzi Lake wildfire, 2025: 9,369 ha2009201020102023 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
Cariboo, Electoral Area J57,886 ha2%

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 C1259410,542 ha in all378 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 numberC11659
Season2025
StartedAugust 25, 2025
Declared outNovember 18, 2025
CauseLightning
Area inside the perimeter57,886 ha (579 km²)
Location, as the province describes it2.9km E of Itcha 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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