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The McDougall Creek Fire was a wildfire in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada as part of the 2023 Canadian wildfires. It started near West Kelowna on August 15, 2023, and was discovered at 5:59 pm PDT. [1] The wildfire forced the evacuation of West Kelowna and parts of Kelowna.
The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 37 square miles. That’s more than half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
An interactive map of evacuation orders and warnings related to the Eaton Fire can be found on Cal Fire's website. The below map of evacuation zones is current as of Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Nanaimo, BC: West Coast 16 Nanaimo elevator cable snaps 1919 August 10: Dominion Park's Mystic Rill fire Fire Montreal, Quebec: Central Canada 8 [10] 1921 October 28: 1921 Britannia Beach flood: Flood Britannia Creek, BC West Coast 37 Debris flood torrent kills 37 people in Britannia Beach 1922 October 4 and 5: The Great Fire: Fire Timsikaming ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Border 2 Fire in California, as of January 24, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings ...
Alkali Lake fire 118,318 August 1 [22] Shag Creek fire 12,322 August 1 [23] Island Lake fire 20,468 August 1 [24] North Baezaeko fire 11,508 August 1 [25] Lutz Creek fire 76,100 August 4 [26] W Babine River fire 10,800 August 5 [27] Hugh Allen Creek fire 10,000 August 6 [28] Tweedsmuir Complex 301,549 August 8 [29] Cool Creek fire 13,626 August ...
The maps below show the sizes and statuses of the fires. They will be updated frequently. The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles.
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires. [10]On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) [11] [12] and sent people fleeing for their lives.