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BC wildfire K60922 · 2025 · 3,135 ha

Placer Creek wildfire, 2025

The Placer Creek wildfire started on July 11, 2025, caused by people. It was declared out on October 27, 2025. Its mapped perimeter covers 3,135 ha: the 25th-largest of 2025's 39 large fires, and the 408th-largest in BC since 1990. 93% of it was in Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area H. The nearest municipality, Princeton, is roughly 22 km away; the fire covered about 51% 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

Tatoosh (Canada) wildfire, 2006: 19,442 haWildfire K51406, 2017: 12,246 haWildfire K61241, 2018: 2,373 haWildfire K62690, 2018: 13,626 haCalcite Creek wildfire, 2024: 6,684 ha N 02 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
Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area H2,926 haunder 1%
Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area G209 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

No other fire of 1,000 ha or more since 1990 overlaps this one by 50 ha or more.

The record

Fire numberK60922
Season2025
StartedJuly 11, 2025
Declared outOctober 27, 2025
CausePeople
Area inside the perimeter3,135 ha

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.

Larger in 2025: Wildfire G90220. Smaller: Wildfire G80476. Every large fire of 2025 · all seasons since 1990 · has my property burned?