A reminder that a campfire ban is now in place for the Cariboo as of July 31. Official details here.
Beautiful weather, mostly sunny at the lake today with a high of 24C. As nice as it was here, Lang Lake had some lightning, and the province saw another 22 new fires so far.
There are currently 19 fires listed as "Out of control" in the Cariboo.
New fires include:
Lang Lake - three new fires. Two southwest of the lake, and one next to the existing fire from yesterday. The biggest is on the east side of the lake and listed at 4 ha.
Canim Lake - another fire south of Canim Lake. No details yet.
Existing notable fires:
Gotchen Lake - on the north end of the lake. Still no details.
Mt Hendrix - Of the remaining three fires east of the mountain, two are listed as "Out of control" and still at 1ha and 1.5ha. Still no information on the third. No smoke visible.
Canim Lake - south of the lake up in the mountains. The 0.1 ha fire is "Being Held".
Horse Lake Rd - directly east of 100 Mile House, and north of Horse Lake. Only one fire remaining of this cluster of seven. No details on it.
Horsefly Lake - there are approximately 12 of the original 18 fires around the Horsefly & Quesnel Lake area still active, but there are three new fires in the last 24 hours. Only one still appears to be of note. It's on the north shore of Horsefly Lake, 526ha in size and now 80% contained. 100% containment by end of today is the goal. All evacuation orders for the area have been rescinded.
2018 BC wildfire stats
June 20-23: 136 new fires, 13 still active
July 17-19: 64 new fires, 24 still active
July 30-Aug 1: 181 new fires, 138 still active
All of May: 125 new fires, 6 still active
All of June: 178 new fires, 16 still active
All of July: 297 new fires, 142 still active
All of Aug: 149 new fires, 129 still active
Current "Out of Control" fires: 172
Note: these stats are for fires greater than 0.01 hectares.
BC map August 4 at 7:30pm
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