McLure Wildfire (2003)
BC Wildfire Service reports the McLure wildfire at a final size of 26,420 hectares and documents evacuations and losses affecting McLure, Barriere and Louis Creek.
Historical significance
McLure was one of the major interface disasters of the 2003 fire season. FireRadar uses the Province's historical impact summary and does not reconstruct unverified incident details.
Official source
BC Wildfire Service — Major Historical Wildfires. Province-published historical summaries of significant British Columbia wildfires, including reported final area and documented community impacts where supplied.
Review source material →What this page does not claim
This is not a live incident page, a complete reconstruction of every operational update, a current evacuation or restriction source, or proof of a fire's exact perimeter at a particular moment. Current decisions should use current official sources.
Current wildfire maps for related communities
These links show today's FireRadar context near communities connected to the historical event. They do not recreate 2003 conditions.