BC Wildfire Service2.6.0 - App Store

The BC Wildfire Service App provides up-to-date wildfire information on your mobile phone, helping you stay informed about wildfires and wildfire-related events and conditions across British Columbia.

Features Include

Interactive Wildfire Map
- Wildfire perimeters when available
- Burn prohibitions
- Smoke forecasts
- Weather conditions
- Evacuation information when available
- Road conditions, and more.

Wildfire Dashboard
- Updates from BC Wildfire Service
- Incident statistics
- Daily situation report during peak fire season

Saved Locations and Saved Incident information
- Evacuation orders and alerts
- Burn prohibitions
- New wildfires
- Weather
- Fire prohibitions
- Customizable notifications

Report a Fire
- In-app incident reporting
- Offline report of fire

Version History Updated the Smoke Forecast map layer to improve the smoke forecast viewing experience. v2.6.0 Sep 24 This update restores weather station data, resolves broken links, and includes general fixes for improved stability. v2.5.2 Apr 23 This release focuses on stability and backend enhancements to ensure a more reliable experience. V2.5.0 Mar 14 Release 2.4.1 emphasizes that the best sources for information on evacuations and local fire bans are the responsible municipalities, First Nations, or local authorities. This update also includes several bug fixes and overall performance enhancements. Ensure you re-add your saved locations if you are a returning user. V2.4.1 05/28/2025 This release introduces a sharing feature, a news highlights reel, and overall enhancements to usability. V2.4.0 02/19/2025 Version 2.3.8 addresses performance issues and input issues when using the map screen. v2.3.8 08/18/2024 This release addresses a variety of observed issues and provides enhancements to the application. 2.3.0 07/24/2024 This release addresses a variety of bug fixes and enhancements to the application. 2.2.0 05/03/2024 Release 2.1.0 includes the following:

- A new Dashboard lets you quickly find the most important information.
- All maps are clearer and up-to-date.
- New easy-access tabs at the top of the map allow important map views to be found quickly.
- A list view to check on fires, evacuations, and burn prohibitions easily. 2.1.0 03/15/2024 This release includes several bug fixes and overall performance enhancements 1.7.1 06/27/2023 Release 1.7 is focused on functionality of the app, updates to Electronic Report a Fire, bug fixes for notifications, updates to statistics page and updates to the BC Wildfire Data. 1.7.0 05/31/2023 Release 1.6 is focused on functionality allowing users to report fires electronically and submit photos associated with their reports. This release also focuses on bugfixes for Notifications, and updates to Wildfire Learning. 1.6.0 06/07/2022 Release 1.5.1 is a bug fix release to address an issue that sometimes prevented the map from showing active fires and fire details.

- Improvements to application consistency 1.5.1 07/03/2021 Release 1.5 focuses on adding more detailed weather information for the user. This release brings data from BC Wildfire Weather stations and provides the user with information on how this data is used by Wildfire to respond to incidents. The release also focuses on educating application users with information about BC Wildfire.

- Near Me shows weather details
- Map Identify shows weather details
- App Info details under help
- Animated Forecasted Precipitation layer
- Wildfire Learning 1.5.0 06/20/2021 Release 1.4 is a small release focusing on some maintenance items based on feedback from the application users.

- Start with the Menu open when opening the application
- Show map of Advisory directly from the Advisories page
- Reorder some layers in the layer tool
- Swap the Layers and Basemaps tools on the map
- Improve legend look and feel 1.4.0 04/01/2021 - Add Current Weather Conditions layer from Environment Canada to the map
- Add Radar Precipitation Rate layer from Environment Canada to the map
- Add Smoke Forecast from BlueSky Canada to the map
- Add BC Wildfire Prescribed Fires to the map
- Fix "Pin" button to identify Advisories on the map
- Add map refresh when the app is brought back to the foreground 1.3.0 12/24/2020 - Increased label text on the basemap for improved visibility
- Increased threshold for clicking on the map to identify items such as Active Fires
- Allow 'Back' to exit the application
- Refresh map items when the app comes in the foreground to ensure the data is fresh 1.2.1 09/02/2020 The BC Wildfire Service mobile app provides consistent, accurate and timely wildfire information. The latest update includes:
- New ‘Notifications’ menu item that allows you to customize how you receive push notifications from the BC Wildfire Service
- Push notifications for the "Latest News" from the BC Wildfire Service Twitter feed
- Push notifications for "Near Me" information such as "Active Wildfires", "Evacuation Orders and Alerts", "Area Restrictions" and "Bans and Prohibitions" 1.2 07/29/2020 - Add "Menu" text to menu icon
- Add text to Near Me button on the map
- Improve performance in the Near Me function
- Always display the legend for Active Fires, Danger Rating and Evacuation Orders in the layer tool
- Improve performance of getting the device location on iOS
devices
- Fix layout issues with Latest News on iOS 6plus 1.1 06/21/2020 - NEW: Update the format of the lat/long to use Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM) format
- NEW: Add Summary Disclaimer to the Disclaimer page 1.0.3 04/30/2020 Remove modal disclaimer popup.
Minor bug updates. 1.0.2 04/28/2020 1.0.1 04/19/2020