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Columbia Valley wildfire map & smoke conditions
Track official wildfires, smoke forecast, and air-quality conditions across the Columbia Valley, including Invermere, Radium Hot Springs, mountain parks, and Highway 93/95.
Use the regional view to understand official incident geography across multiple communities, then compare forecast smoke and measured AQHI before drawing conclusions about local air quality.
Current direct-official data
Current Columbia Valley wildfire snapshot
Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
Active official fires
7
Direct British Columbia incident points inside the curated Columbia Valley regional extent.
Out of control
3
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
1,469 ha
7 active regional records report a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
1,117 ha
Jumbo Creek
Regional membership is based on FireRadar's curated geographic extent and source-provided incident point locations. It is not an emergency boundary, predicted spread area, or municipal jurisdiction.
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The dashed outline is FireRadar's curated regional counting extent. Incident points, smoke forecasts, and AQHI observations are separate datasets and should not be interpreted as evacuation boundaries or fire-spread predictions. FireRadar regional extents may overlap near transition areas. Regional totals are useful local summaries and must not be added together to produce a province total.
Measured air quality · AQHI
Nearest current AQHI observations
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Stations can be far from rural or remote parts of a region. The nearest observation may not represent conditions everywhere inside the regional boundary.
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Wildfire context across Columbia Valley
The Columbia Valley is a long north-south mountain corridor bordered by the Purcell and Rocky Mountains, with forested slopes, rural properties, resorts, campgrounds, lakes, and limited major road connections. Wildfire and smoke can affect several communities and recreation areas at once, so a regional view provides useful context between individual community pages and the full British Columbia map.
Current official incidents
Active official wildfires in Columbia Valley
Latest completed comparison
What changed around Columbia Valley
Matched regional examples from FireRadar's completed 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-13 direct-official comparison. The retained incident-detail list is intentionally bounded, so absence here is not presented as proof that nothing changed in the region.
No regional incident from the bounded daily detail list matched a current source-provided point inside this extent. Use the province comparison for the complete jurisdiction-level counts.
Forecast layer
Columbia Valley smoke forecast
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Columbia Valley. Forecast smoke is not proof that a nearby wildfire is the source of local smoke.
Measured conditions
Air quality and AQHI
AQHI and observed PM2.5 provide measured air-quality context and remain distinct from FireWork forecast smoke. Station coverage varies across a region, especially in rural and remote areas.
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Communities in the Columbia Valley regional cluster
Invermere wildfire map
Track official wildfires, smoke forecast, and air-quality context around Invermere and the Columbia Valley in southeastern British Columbia.
Radium Hot Springs wildfire map
View official wildfires, smoke forecast, and air-quality conditions around Radium Hot Springs and the northern Columbia Valley.
Golden wildfire map
View official wildfire activity and smoke conditions around Golden and the upper Columbia Valley.
Cranbrook wildfire map
View current official wildfires and nearby satellite hotspots around Cranbrook and the East Kootenay.
Official source and emergency information
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.
FireRadar does not issue evacuation orders, emergency notices, road closures, or fire-spread predictions. Follow provincial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency authorities for current instructions.
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