French Bar Creek Fire
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🟢 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
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- BC Wildfire Service
Burning for 61 days since its July 4, 2026 start, the French Bar Creek Fire near Clinton, British Columbia, has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 1,013 hectares per day under the management of the BC Wildfire Service. Satellites are currently picking up a low heat signature, with only two heat detections recorded over the past 48 hours, indicating how far the active fire has spread across its current footprint.
The active wildfire has grown to encompass 61,786 hectares, equivalent to 152,676 acres. Despite the ongoing scale of this incident, the broader regional picture reveals that the typical fire season runs from May to September, while national figures show that 2,598,469 hectares have burned so far in 2026, placing the year's total 39% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in British Columbia for 64 days. So far it has affected roughly 61,786 ha (152,676 acres) — about 618 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 2,600,271 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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