Smoke and AQHI context
Smoke forecasts are model estimates and AQHI stations report combined local air-quality conditions. They should be checked together, and neither proves that smoke is caused by the nearest mapped fire.
View current official wildfires and nearby satellite hotspots around Penticton and the South Okanagan.
Distances are straight-line measurements to source-provided point locations, not fire perimeters, evacuation boundaries, or safety ratings.
These timestamps have different meanings. A page render or ingestion attempt does not replace the owning agency's source-update time.
There are 5 current official British Columbia fire points within 100 km of the community centre. The nearest current official point is 35 km northeast near K50869.
Open the nearest official fire record →Smoke forecasts are model estimates and AQHI stations report combined local air-quality conditions. They should be checked together, and neither proves that smoke is caused by the nearest mapped fire.
Official incident markers come from the BC Wildfire Service feed. Marker locations are informational and do not replace evacuation orders, alerts, or local emergency instructions.
Penticton lies between Okanagan and Skaha lakes in a dry Interior landscape. Wildfire activity can affect surrounding slopes, rural communities, highways, recreation areas, and smoke conditions even when an incident is outside the city boundary.
Official incident markers come from the BC Wildfire Service feed. Marker locations are informational and do not replace evacuation orders, alerts, or local emergency instructions.
Open BC Wildfire Service →Distances are calculated from the centre of the selected location to the point supplied for each record. A fire can be large, irregularly shaped, remote, or represented by a reference point rather than an exact perimeter.
FireRadar does not issue evacuation orders, emergency alerts, road closures, or fire-spread predictions. Follow provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency authorities for current instructions.
Same-province communities are prioritized, followed by the nearest available local map pages.