Fires, Drought and Water Woes to Begin BC’s Wildfire Season

An aerial crew works on the Dryden Creek fire, an out-of-control wildfire, just north of Squamish, B.C, on June 10, 2025. The Canadian Press/Tijana Martin

A cluster of wildfires are burning in British Columbia, many of them on land that is already parched, marking the beginning of a season that has some officials planning for how to conserve water.

The couple of dozen fires burning are mostly in the southern and central Interior, a swath of the province that federal drought monitors list from “abnormally dry” to “severe drought.”