The superintendent of predictive services with the BC Wildfire Service said 'this fire season is trending similar to 2020 and 2011, so far.'
While cooler spring temperatures helped slow the start of B.C.'s wildfire season, two weeks of hot temperatures have ramped up the fire danger across the southern half of the province. And above-average temperatures are expected to continue through September.
“In the past week there is about 149 new fire starts and we would expect similar number of fire starts through the month of August,” McLoughlin said. Of these new starts, 121 are now classified as held, under control, or out.Over the past week, a number of large fires have popped up in the Southern Interior, and there are now six “fires of note” in the province.
When that high-pressure ridge broke down at the end of July, it brought lightning storms and high winds. About 35,000 lightning strikes were recorded in B.C. in the last week of July, and 121 new fires were sparked during that period.
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