Smoke near Radium Hot Springs
Open the ECCC FireWork smoke forecast already centred on this community. Forecast smoke is modelled guidance, not a confirmed local measurement.
Open local smoke forecastBritish Columbia smoke map →View official wildfires, smoke forecast, and air-quality conditions around Radium Hot Springs and the northern Columbia Valley.
Use the local view for nearby official wildfire activity, then check smoke forecast and AQHI context before drawing conclusions about local air quality.
Community Wildfire Watch with FireRadar Plus monitors significant direct-official wildfire activity near Radium Hot Springs. Your separate free daily briefing can summarize nearby wildfire, smoke and AQHI context once a day.
Distances are straight-line measurements to source-provided point locations, not fire perimeters, evacuation boundaries, or safety ratings.
These timestamps are intentionally separate: the responsible agency owns the source update, FireRadar records when it retrieved the data, and page generation does not replace either timestamp.
There are 16 current official British Columbia fire points within 100 km of the community centre. The nearest current official point is 42 km southwest near Jumbo Creek.
Open the nearest official fire record →Open the ECCC FireWork smoke forecast already centred on this community. Forecast smoke is modelled guidance, not a confirmed local measurement.
Open local smoke forecastBritish Columbia smoke map →Nearest current official AQHI: 1.32 (Low) at Cranbrook, 126.4 km from the community centre.
Observed Aug 13, 2026, 8:00 p.m.. Use the local air-quality layer for available AQHI and PM2.5 station context; do not attribute measured air quality to the nearest wildfire by distance alone.
Open local air qualityReview FireRadar’s current-day official wildfire changes, including newly observed fires and status movement, then return here for the local geographic context.
Review today’s changesWithin 25 km: 0 · within 50 km: 1 · within 100 km: 16.
There are 0 recent out or extinguished official records within 100 km.
Official incident markers come from the BC Wildfire Service feed. Marker locations are informational and do not replace official emergency notices or local emergency instructions.
The current verified British Columbia source payload contains 125 official records before FireRadar separates active and recent-out context.
Radium Hot Springs sits beside Kootenay National Park at the junction of major Columbia Valley and mountain travel corridors. Forested slopes, recreation areas, campgrounds, rural properties, Highway 93 and Highway 95 make wildfire and smoke context especially relevant for residents and visitors, while official agencies remain authoritative for closures and emergency instructions.
Official incident markers come from the BC Wildfire Service feed. Marker locations are informational and do not replace official emergency notices 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 official emergency notices, road closures, or fire-spread predictions. Follow provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency authorities for current instructions.
FireRadar prioritizes communities in the same regional cluster, then the same province, followed by the nearest curated local pages.