To Date, Northwestern BC has had NO Forest Fires in 2025

To date, northwestern BC has had no forest fires of note in 2025. While the rest of the province, Alaska, and the rest of Canada from coast to coast has been tinder dry with massive forest fires everywhere, northwestern BC has had an unusually wet summer.

Residents of the region are not complaining! Everyone remembers the forest fire of 2018, just a few short years ago, that blew through the community of Telegraph Creek taking half the homes with it and burning a vast area of pristine forest and vital wildlife habitat. It will be a long time before it comes back.

Then there was the Blue River fire to the north of Good Hope Lake that reignited multiple years after that, turning the spectacular Blue Lakes region into something reminiscent of the forests of France in World War 1.

Last winter had a lower than normal snowpack in the region. But when summer came, so did the rain, day after day and week after week.

It didn’t rain every day, nor did it rain all day when it did. But the frequent showers served to keep the wildfire risk down, which has been a huge relief for residents of the remote area.

The last week of August and first week of September have been unusually hot during the day, but with the shorter days and lower angle of the sun, it cools down quickly and deeply at night, again keeping the risk well below what it would be with the same kind of weather in July.

Lets hope it continues on the same trend. The people of northwestern BC need the break.