Highway corridor · British Columbia

BC Highway 97 Corridor wildfire map & smoke conditions

Track official wildfires near the BC Highway 97 corridor with smoke forecast, AQHI context, nearby-fire distances, and links to communities from the Okanagan through the Cariboo and northeast.

FireRadar uses a fixed geographic anchor for reproducible nearby-fire distances. Large regions, parks, lakes, and highway corridors can have very different conditions from one end to the other.

Current direct-official data

Official wildfires near BC Highway 97 Corridor

Latest source update: Aug 11, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
Within 25 km
0
Active official point records.
Within 50 km
2
Active official point records.
Within 100 km
9
3 recent out records are also within 100 km.
Nearest official active fire
42 km
Valenzuela Lake

Distances are straight-line measurements to source-provided point locations, not fire perimeters, evacuation boundaries, or safety ratings.

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Wildfire context for BC Highway 97 Corridor

Highway 97 is a long north-south corridor connecting the Okanagan, Thompson-Cariboo, Prince George region, Peace country, and Alaska Highway system. Wildfire relevance changes continuously along the route, so this page provides a stable corridor anchor and links into local community pages rather than claiming route-wide road status.

Why this place-level view is useful

During wildfire season, travellers often search the highway name before they search a municipality. FireRadar can show wildfire and smoke context around the corridor, while DriveBC remains the authority for closures, detours, incidents, and road conditions.

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.

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