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BC wildfire G90216 · 2025 · 280,461 ha
Wildfire G90216, 2025
Wildfire G90216 started on May 1, 2023, caused by lightning. It burned on through the winter and was declared out on March 31, 2026. Its mapped perimeter covers 280,461 ha (2,805 km²): the largest of 2025's 39 large fires, and the 6th-largest in BC since 1990. It reached Northern Rockies, burning 278,932 ha there, 3% 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
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
| Place | Burned there | Of the place's land |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Rockies | 278,932 ha | 3% |
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
6 earlier large fires had burned part of this ground.
- 2023Wildfire G90207170,937 ha in all5,810 ha shared
- 2023Wildfire G90288768,915 ha in all211 ha shared
- 2023Wildfire G914946,996 ha in all250 ha shared
- 2023Wildfire G9294071,003 ha in all736 ha shared
- 2024Nogah Creek wildfire508,473 ha in all1,053 ha shared
- 2024Wildfire G9068610,755 ha in all601 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 number | G90216 |
|---|---|
| Season | 2025 |
| Started | May 1, 2023 |
| Declared out | March 31, 2026 |
| Cause | Lightning |
| Area inside the perimeter | 280,461 ha (2,805 km²) |
| Location, as the province describes it | Shush 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.
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.
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