Lake & recreation area · British Columbia

Stuart Lake wildfire map & smoke conditions

View official wildfires and smoke around Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, Indigenous communities, recreation properties, and surrounding sub-boreal forest.

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 Stuart Lake

Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Within 25 km
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Active direct-official point records.
Within 50 km
1
Active direct-official point records.
Within 100 km
1
0 recent out records are also within 100 km.
Nearest official active fire
42 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 Stuart Lake

Stuart Lake is a large north-central Interior lake surrounded by forest, rural and Indigenous communities, historic sites, recreation areas, forestry activity, and roads extending well beyond Fort St. James. Wildfires can affect remote properties, road access, utilities, community travel, and smoke across different sections of the shoreline.

Why this place-level view is useful

The lake is a regional destination and home area that extends beyond the community centre. FireRadar provides current official wildfire and smoke context while local and Indigenous authorities remain responsible for emergency instructions, access decisions, and community operations.

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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