Fire update - August 8

A reminder that a campfire ban is now in place for the Cariboo as of July 31. Official details here.

Another hot day at the lake today with a high of 30C. The smoke rolled in again over night, and didn't start to clear until late afternoon.  Just a slight haze was remaining at dusk.

Slightly worse day on the fire front with 23+ new fires across, around half in the northeast corner.  North of Horse Lake again added a new fire, but one was also upgraded to "Out", so there are still four.  None of these are of note as of yet.

There are currently 22 fires listed as "Out of control" in the Cariboo.

New fires include:

Hawkins Lake - 1km southwest of Hawkins.  No details yet.

Existing notable fires:

Mt Hendrix - Of the remaining three fires east of the mountain, two are still listed as "Out of control" and still at 1ha and 1.5ha. I suspect all of these fires are actually out.

Lang Lake - still three fires around the lake. The biggest is on the south side of the lake and listed at 100ha. The east side fire is listed at 10 ha and is still "Being Held".

Canim Lake - The fire that was originally reported on August 1st and re-appeared on the map on Sunday still has no specifics.

Horse Lake Rd - directly east of 100 Mile House, and north of Horse Lake. Three existing fires plus the one new fires from today. One is 0.63ha, no details on the others.

Horsefly Lake - there are approximately 10 fires around the Horsefly & Quesnel Lake area still active. Only one still appears to be of note. It's on the north shore of Horsefly Lake, remains 526ha in size and 100% contained. It is still listed as "Out of Control", but I expect that to change to "Being Held" any day now. All evacuation orders for the area have been rescinded. This will be the last update on these fires unless something changes for the worse.

2018 BC wildfire stats
June 20-23: 136 new fires, 13 still active
July 17-19:  64 new fires, 17 still active
July 30-Aug 1:  181 new fires, 126 still active
All of May: 125 new fires, 6 still active
All of June: 178 new fires, 16 still active
All of July: 298 new fires, 119 still active
All of Aug: 225 new fires, 201 still active

Current "Out of Control" fires: 195

Note: these stats are for fires greater than 0.01 hectares.

BC map August 7 at 8:00pm