Number of Wildfires Grows in BC, but Cooler Weather Offers Firefighters a Breather

Smoke from the Nohomin wildfire grows toward the Stein Valley west of Lytton, in British Columbia, July 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/HO-BC Wildfire Service

The BC Wildfire Service says five fires that either threaten public safety or are highly visible are now burning in the province, up from two just a day earlier.

The blazes newly identified as “fires of note” include a nearly nine-square-kilometre fire northwest of Cache Creek in the Kamloops Fire Centre, another that has burned roughly two square kilometres northwest of Kamloops, and a third in the Southeast Fire Centre covering 15 square kilometres between Kaslo and New Denver.