Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis prohibition applies to all areas that are outside of municipal boundaries. In addition, this prohibition applies to the following types of Crown land within municipal boundaries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Parks, conservancies and recreation areas (Park Act<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Recreation sites, recreation trails, interpretive forest sites and trail-based recreation areas (Forest and Range Practices Act<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ecological reserves (Ecological Reserve Act<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Wildlife management areas (Wildlife Act<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Private managed forest land (Private Managed Forest Land Act<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Municipalities may align with BC Wildfire Service prohibitions or impose their own prohibitions based on local conditions. If you are in a municipality, be sure to check if local prohibitions are in place. If you are within a regional district or improvement district, this prohibition applies as well as any local prohibition issued by the regional district or improvement district. BC Parks follows BC Wildfire Service prohibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This prohibition does not include Category 2 open burning or Category 1 campfires. More information on open burning<\/a>, including a description of each category of burn, is available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Northwest Fire Centre is asking anyone who conducted a Category 3 pile burn over the fall or winter to check their burn site(s) and ensure they are fully extinguished.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOffences and fines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Anyone found in contravention of an open fire prohibition may be issued a ticket for $1,150, required to pay an administrative penalty of $10,000, or, if convicted in court, fined up to $100,000 and\/or sentenced for up to one year in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your fire causes or contributes to a wildfire, you may be fined up to $1 million and\/or sentenced to up to 3 years in jail, as well as be responsible for all firefighting and associated costs. More information about the Wildfire Act and Regulation is available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Report a wildfire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Northwest Fire Centre would like to thank the public for its continuing help in preventing wildfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To report a wildfire, call 1-800-663-5555 toll-free or *5555 on a cell phone. You can also use the Report function<\/a> in the BC Wildfire App to report a wildfire. Reporting through the app lets you upload images and can be used without service.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStay up to date<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
For up-to-date information on current wildfire activity and prohibitions visit www.bcwildfire.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFollow the latest wildfire news on:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- X (formerly Twitter)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- BC Wildfire App: available for Apple<\/a> and Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Fire Information Officer
Northwest Fire Centre
BC Wildfire Service
250-876-6844<\/a>
BCWS.NWFCInfo@gov.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nConnect with the Province of B.C. at www.gov.bc.ca\/connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SMITHERS \u2013 Effective at 12:00 p.m. (noon) PDT on Friday, May 9, 2025, Category 3 open fires will be prohibited across the Bulkley Fire Zone and the Nadina Fire Zone. This includes the Nadina Forest District and the Skeena portion of the Skeena\/Stikine Forest District. This prohibition also applies to the Village of Hazelton. Anyone conducting … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6997,"featured_media":19976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[543,72,32],"class_list":["post-19546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-bulletins","tag-app","tag-nwfc","tag-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions\/24163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bcwildfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}