The Prince George Fire Centre continues to be the most active as the 2025 wildfire season rages on.
Fire Information Officer, Pedro Roldan-Delgado spoke with Vista Radio.
“We have 53 wildfires still burning in the Prince George Fire Centre, and with those 53 approximately 682,859 hectares have burned.”
He adds the vast majority of the activity has been located in the Peace Region, which has been drought-stricken for the past few years.
The Kiskatinaw River wildfire, 60 kilometres of south of Dawson Creek is being held at 26,277 hectares. 103 wildfire personnel are battling the blaze with three aviation helicopters assigned to the blaze.
In addition, the Pocket Knife Creek blaze, 150 kilometres north of Fort St. John is under control at 151,310 hectares. Various firefighting personnel, heavy equipment and aviation crews remain on scene.
The Summit Lake wildfire near Fort Nelson is 80,842 hectares and is being held – an incident management team is in place as well as 84 firefighting personnel and 11 aviation aircraft assigned to the inferno.
Lastly, Alces River blaze is under control according to the BC Wildfire Service. It is 4,460 hectares at the moment with firefighting personnel, heavy equipment and aviation crews overseeing operations.
With that being said, Roldan-Delgado noted the warmer weather up coming could turn the situation around, and not for the better.
“We are anticipating on lightning holdovers popping up now that things are slowly warming up. With the amount of precipitation we did receive it does help. We are still at a high drought condition up in the Peace so any rain helps.”
56% of all wildfires have been lightning caused while the remainder are human-caused.
Since April 1st, 510 blazes have been ignited in BC.
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