FireRadar Highways · official status + environmental context

Highway 20 — Williams Lake to Bella Coola

DriveBC verification and wildfire context across the remote Chilcotin access corridor to Bella Coola.

Official road report
INCIDENTS REPORTED

DriveBC · CURRENT

1 active matching DriveBC records are listed. None provides a route-wide open or closed statement; review the incidents before travel.

Active incidents
1
Retrieved
Aug 20, 2026, 6:47 a.m. UTC

Active incidents & restrictions

INCIDENT · MINOR
INCIDENT

Highway 20, in both directions. Watch for livestock between Elsey Rd and Chipman Rd for 143.1 km (39 km east of Tatla Lake to 6 km west of Anahim Lake). Last updated Wed Aug 19 at 8:08 PM PDT. (DBC-78509)

Official update: Aug 20, 2026, 3:08 a.m. UTC
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Open a focused view for official road conditions, closures, incidents, cameras, weather, wildfire context, winter driving or travel alerts. These pages use this exact route scope and keep official travelability separate from environmental context.

Latest highway camera images

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Route map & wildfire context

The highway is the orange route focus. Official fires, recent out fires, smoke and AQHI remain independently sourced layers. FireRadar does not convert them into a travel-safety claim.

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Official restriction context

Fire restrictions along Highway 20 — Williams Lake to Bella Coola

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Weather

Official alerts & forecast context

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Wildfire impact

Current corridor assessment

Below, FireRadar publishes a conservative current corridor assessment using direct-official wildfire information and available Environment Canada weather context. It is not a fire-spread forecast or travel-safety score.

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Data freshness

Each source stands alone

Integrated road events revalidate every 5 minutes. Camera metadata revalidates every 6 hours; images use short-lived edge caching. An unavailable source stays unavailable—not zero.

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Current corridor intelligence

Weather warnings and wildfire impact

Environment Canada weather and FireRadar's current wildfire corridor assessment are shown separately from the transportation authority's official road state. Neither is a statement that travel is safe.

Environment Canada

Corridor weather

Current
Alerts
0
Temperature
15°C
Wind
5 km/h
Humidity
86%

No Environment Canada weather alert geometry currently matches the corridor bounding area. This is not a guarantee of benign road conditions.

Nearest available weather point: Bella Coola · 124 km from the corridor anchor · observation Aug 20, 2026, 6:00 a.m. UTC
Tonight
Clear. Fog patches developing after midnight. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 15.
Thursday
Sunny. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. Wind becoming west 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 26. Humidex 28. UV index 6 or high.
Thursday night
Clear. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light in the evening. Low 15.
Friday
Sunny. High 27.
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Current wildfire corridor risk

LOW · 20
Within 5 km
0
Within 25 km
1
Out of control
0
Confidence
HIGH

Nearest direct-official active wildfire is 24 km from the configured corridor spine.

Nearest official active fire: Felker Fire · 24 km · Being held

Current heuristic only. FireRadar does not predict future fire spread in this stage and deliberately caps point-based assessments below Critical. Official road travelability remains separate.

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