Wildfire context for Regional District of Central Okanagan
The Central Okanagan includes dense urban areas, forested interface neighbourhoods, rural properties, steep slopes, Okanagan Lake, parks, and major transportation corridors. Fire and smoke impacts can move across municipal boundaries and affect the wider valley at the same time.
Why this place-level view is useful
A regional-district page provides the broader context users need when incidents affect Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland, Lake Country, and surrounding electoral areas. Official emergency notices still belong to local and provincial authorities.
Smoke forecast and air quality
Wildfire smoke forecast and measured air-quality information answer different questions. FireRadar keeps ECCC forecast smoke and AQHI observations separate so a model forecast is not presented as a local air-quality measurement.
Official wildfire source for British Columbia
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.
Emergency, closure, and travel information
FireRadar is an informational wildfire map. It does not issue evacuation instructions, park closures, road closures, travel advisories, or fire-spread predictions. Follow the applicable provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, parks, transportation, and emergency authorities for operational decisions.