Sea Lion Mountain Fire
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Cause
- Natural
- Response
- Modified
- Jurisdiction
- BC Wildfire Service
Spanning five days of persistent activity with an average daily growth of approximately 108 hectares per day, the natural wildfire burning near Area A (Kicking Horse/Kinbasket Lake) in British Columbia has expanded to cover 541 hectares, equivalent to 1,337 acres. Satellites have registered 26 heat detections over the past 48 hours, highlighting the ongoing thermal activity across the landscape as the fire continues to burn.
Managed by the BC Wildfire Service while remaining active, this incident unfolds within a regional fire season that typically spans from May to September. Despite this localized activity, the broader national landscape reflects a different trend, with 2,148,706 hectares burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 49% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in British Columbia for 6 days. So far it has affected roughly 541 ha (1,337 acres) — about 5.4 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Canada
Across Canada, roughly 2,202,999 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 48% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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