The Donnie Creek wildfire in northeast B.C. has now surpassed the 2017 Plateau fire as the largest, by area burned, ever recorded in the province's history.
at a point north of Trutch, B.C. Evacuation orders and alerts are in place for a 160-kilometre stretch of the road.an important corridorCrews conducted planned ignitions around the perimeter of the fire, near the highway, on Friday. The BCWS says the fire perimeter is currently holding at that spot, but warmer weather conditions are expected to return on Thursday.
The Plateau fire complex in 2017, which also consisted of nearby fires, burned an area of 5,451 square kilometres.Drysdale said the Peace region began early May, and there hasn't been the precipitation that would have helped ward off large fire starts in the spring. "The fire started in May, which is during what we call spring dip. So, the area hadn't greened up and vegetation hadn't accepted the moisture that it normally does," she said."We saw 30 degree temperatures in the spring. And we've had high and continuous winds throughout."
More than 80 fires are burning across B.C. as of 12 p.m. PT on Sunday, and 25 of them are considered out of control.Akshay Kulkarni is a journalist who has worked at CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based in Vancouver, he has covered breaking news, and written features about the pandemic and toxic drug crisis. He is most interested in data-driven stories. You can email him at [email protected].
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