Remaining open fire prohibitions lifted throughout Coastal Fire Centre



PARKSVILLE — Effective Friday, October 3, 2025, at 12 p.m. (noon) PDT, all open fire prohibitions and restrictions will be lifted throughout the entire Coastal Fire Centre.

This applies to Crown land within and outside of municipal boundaries. Examples of Crown land within municipal boundaries include:

  • Parks, conservancies and recreation areas (Park Act)
  • Recreation sites, recreation trails, interpretive forest sites and trail-based recreation areas (Forest and Range Practices Act)
  • Ecological reserves (Ecological Reserve Act)
  • Wildlife management areas (Wildlife Act)
  • Private managed forest land (Private Managed Forest Land Act)

Municipalities may align with BC Wildfire Service prohibitions or impose their own prohibitions based on local conditions. If you are within a municipality, be sure to check if local prohibitions are in place. If you are within a regional district or improvement district, these wildfire regulations apply in addition to any local prohibitions issued by the regional district or improvement.

It is the responsibility of the individual to ensure that burning is done in a safe and responsible manner and in accordance with regulations. Please take the time to learn how to burn safely:

Human-caused wildfires are completely preventable and divert critical resources away from lightning-caused fires. Always practice safe, responsible fire use where permitted. Anyone found in contravention of open burning regulations may be fined and subjected to additional penalties. If the contravention causes or contributes to a wildfire, the person responsible may be ordered to pay all firefighting and associated costs.

For more information on fire prohibitions and restrictions, please visit BCWildfire.ca.

To report a wildfire, call *5555 on a cellphone, 1-800-663-5555 toll-free or submit a digital report using the BC Wildfire Service public mobile app’s Report a Fire function.

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Contact:
Fire Information Officer

Coastal Fire Centre | BC Wildfire Service

250-951-4209 | BCWS.COFCInfo@gov.bc.ca