BC Wildfire Service

Province of British Columbia, Canada

About this app

The BC Wildfire Service App provides up-to-date wildfire information on your mobile phone, helping you stay informed about wildfires and wildfire-related events and conditions across British Columbia.

Features Include

Interactive Wildfire Map
- Wildfire perimeters when available
- Burn prohibitions
- Smoke forecasts
- Weather conditions
- Evacuation information when available
- Road conditions, and more.

Wildfire Dashboard
- Updates from BC Wildfire Service
- Incident statistics
- Daily situation report during peak fire season

Saved Locations and Saved Incident information
- Evacuation orders and alerts
- Burn prohibitions
- New wildfires
- Weather
- Fire prohibitions
- Customizable notifications

Report a Fire
- In-app incident reporting
- Offline report of fire

Ratings and reviews

Very slow, in the map portion, it won't zoom in or even move at all, contstant freezing. 2023 fire season version was better, I had no issues with it at all. 2024 fire season version is pretty much useless. It's better to go online than try to use the app. I've downloaded and uninstalled the app twice, about a month apart, and both tries were very slow.

used to work really well, but now it's too glitchy to use. you can't zoom in/out or move around on the map. tapping a fire on the map doesn't usually bring up details, but sometimes it causes the map to suddenly zoom out. when i try to save a location, a text bubble pops up saying, "failed to save location." i'm on android and i unistalled/reinstalled the app, which didn't help. edit: the 2.3.8 update makes it possible to zoom on the map and bring up details, but nothing else has improved.

The update is absolutely horrible. It's unfortunate as this was a great place to always have up to date wildfire information. The map shows all current wildfires and their color coded status (out of control, out, etc), but after you click on a fire to get all the detailed info on that fire and press the back key to go back to the map, it doesn't go back to the same map and it's a whole song & dance to get back to where you were. Why change what wasn't broken?! It was so well laid out before:(

What’s new

Release 2.4.1 emphasizes that the best sources for information on evacuations and local fire bans are the responsible municipalities, First Nations, or local authorities. This update also includes several bug fixes and overall performance enhancements. Ensure you re-add your saved locations if you are a returning user.