Traveling through BC wildfire area
We are scheduled to drive from Prince Rupert to Prince George to Cache Creek to Whistler to Victoria next week and have campsites at each of those towns. I'm looking for responses from anyone that ha...
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The following is the interactive Canadian Wildland Fire Information System here-->
This is what I do if the possibility of driving through wildfire territory presents itself. Your mileage will vary, and you will have to make up your own mind as to the risks you want to assume.
I zoom in to the appropriate scale, turn on the "Active Fires" layer, and the "Fire M3 Hotspots" layer, then pan along my proposed route(s).
Smoke direction and visibility is highly variable, and can change in literally 10 ~ 20 minutes (nobody can predict where smoke will be; only in situ observation will inform real time). Fire perimeters and directions change in minutes, too. Predicting where wildfires and smoke will spread and how fast hour-by-hour is very problematic.
I am on my own when I enter wildfire territory, only I can decide what risk I want to assume. I do my due diligence right up to the minute before I leave.
This is what I do if the possibility of driving through wildfire territory presents itself. Your mileage will vary, and you will have to make up your own mind as to the risks you want to assume.
I zoom in to the appropriate scale, turn on the "Active Fires" layer, and the "Fire M3 Hotspots" layer, then pan along my proposed route(s).
Smoke direction and visibility is highly variable, and can change in literally 10 ~ 20 minutes (nobody can predict where smoke will be; only in situ observation will inform real time). Fire perimeters and directions change in minutes, too. Predicting where wildfires and smoke will spread and how fast hour-by-hour is very problematic.
I am on my own when I enter wildfire territory, only I can decide what risk I want to assume. I do my due diligence right up to the minute before I leave.
