Regional district · British Columbia

Regional District of Mount Waddington wildfire map & smoke conditions

View official wildfires and smoke across the Regional District of Mount Waddington, including Port Hardy, Port McNeill, North Island forest, remote communities, and coastal inlets.

Nearby-fire distances use a fixed representative anchor because verified boundary geometry is not attached to this page. Large parks, lakes, districts, and recreation areas can have very different conditions from one end to the other.

Current direct-official data · representative-anchor distance

Official wildfires near Regional District of Mount Waddington

Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
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Active direct-official point records.
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Within 100 km
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Nearest official active fire
92 km
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Distance is measured to FireRadar's representative place anchor because verified boundary geometry is not attached to this page. It is not a spread, evacuation, access, or safety distance.

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Wildfire context for Regional District of Mount Waddington

Mount Waddington covers northern Vancouver Island and nearby coastal areas with extensive managed forest, Indigenous communities, rural settlements, resource roads, ferry and marine links, recreation destinations, and long highway connections. Fires can affect forestry, community access, utilities, tourism, and smoke across widely separated locations.

Why this place-level view is useful

The district is a practical regional geography for North Island incidents outside individual towns. FireRadar supplies official wildfire context while the regional district, First Nations, municipalities, province, and transportation operators remain responsible for emergency and access decisions.

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, fire bans, campground or trail status, or fire-spread predictions. Follow the applicable provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, parks, transportation, and emergency authorities for operational decisions.

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