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

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:(

I hate to jump on the band wagon, BUT I just downloaded the updated app and it is not functioning well. The interface is slow, the map skips or doesn't zoom in, the information doesn't load. One screen even gave me a strobe effect. Please either go back to the old version or update to ensure this tool works more effectively.

I am now unable to set my location on the map in the new app layout. All I get is an error message no matter what I do. The whole thing is awful and not the least bit user friendly. I hope you fix this before fire season really takes off, a lot of us in the interior have come to rely on the notifications.

What's new

Release 2.1.0 includes the following:
- A new Dashboard lets you quickly find the most important information.
- All maps are clearer and up-to-date.
- New easy-access tabs at the top of the map allow important map views to be found quickly.
- A list view to check on fires, evacuations, and burn prohibitions easily.