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

App sucks after the last update around March 2024. It's slow, very laggy, cannot get info inside of the app (ie forces you to leave the app to a browser just to read ANY link on the app), and worst of all, none of the fire weather info firefighters want at their finger tips are available anymore!!! Give us back the access to the BUI, FFMC etc

Wow, this 2024 version is as bad as what everyone is noting relative to 2023's version. As an android user, it now loads slow, freezes, fails to load basemap, & doesn't auto-focus to user pre-set geographic zones for proximity incident notifications and updates. BC's contractor for this updated build needs to be recalled imminently and restore the previous 2023 version, before public users abandon the app. Seems like it failed to undergo testing, or perhaps only tested on the newest devices

Why have you dumbed down the app? The web version was superior to the app. The previous version was superior to this one. Where is the ability to turn off and on features. Speaking of that, where are the features? There used to be numerous items to drill into, such as fire weather info. Also, get rid of the generic icon.

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.