Wildfires Near Prince George

Active fires around the city right now — nearest first, with each one's stage of control and size — plus the alerts to register for and the numbers to call.

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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Prince George and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.

Fire

Where

Stage of control

Size

2026-C11112

101 kilometres southwest

Under control

1,644 hectares

2026-C10467

111 kilometres southwest

Under control

1,815 hectares

2026-C10952

117 kilometres southwest

Under control

1,588 hectares

2026-R11095

158 kilometres west

Being held

under a hectare

2026-R11970

158 kilometres west

Out of control

under a hectare

The official channels

Register for evacuation alerts (RDFFG Public Alerting System)The Regional District's alerting system covers the City of Prince George. Pick your zone and it will call, text or email you when an evacuation alert or order is issued. Free.

BC Wildfire Service — the official wildfire mapThe Province's own map: fire perimeters, current size and stage of control, plus evacuation orders and alerts drawn on the map.

EmergencyInfoBCEvery active evacuation alert and order in British Columbia, from every regional district — the page to check when a fire is near a boundary.

Prince George Fire Centre — fire prohibitions and restrictionsWhat you may and may not burn right now outside city limits. Bans change through the season and can differ by fire zone; inside the city, the City's own rules apply.

Report a wildfire — 1-800-663-5555, or *5555 from a mobileIf you can see a fire that nobody appears to be working on, this is the number. Note where it is and which way the smoke is going before you call.

Worth knowing

Smoke is a separate question

This page is about where fires are burning, not what you are breathing. Prince George sits in a valley bowl that holds smoke, so the air here can be bad for days from fires hundreds of kilometres away while nothing near town is burning at all — and it can be clear with a fire in range. For today's air, use the Air Check page.

Reading a BC fire number

BC Wildfire numbers every fire by the fire centre it falls in: G for the Prince George Fire Centre, C for the Cariboo Fire Centre that starts just south and west of the city. Prince George sits close to that boundary, which is why fires the same distance from town carry different letters — and why the authority issuing an evacuation alert changes with the fire. The Swede Creek fire southwest of the city in June 2026 was alerted by the Cariboo Regional District, not by the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George.

The city the north evacuates to

Prince George is the reception centre for a very large piece of the province. In the summer of 2017 roughly 10,000 people came here from Williams Lake and the Cariboo, and about 3,000 more arrived in 2018. A fire well outside any of the bands below can still fill the city's hotels and change the week here, so distance from town is not the only thing worth watching.

Your evacuation zone is the colour on your garbage cart

When the City set up its emergency evacuation zones it deliberately matched them to the five coloured garbage collection zones, so the colour on the Find My Garbage Zone page is the zone you register under for alerts. Registering takes a few minutes and is worth doing before a fire season, not during one.

Wildfires Near Prince George

About these tools

The official channels

Where neighbors share news

Worth knowing

Smoke is a separate question

Reading a BC fire number

The city the north evacuates to

Your evacuation zone is the colour on your garbage cart