While this year’s wildfire season in the province started later than usual due to a wet spring season, the BC Wildfire Service says fires may continue longer than usual.
“Typically, we start to see a winddown in our fire season the first week of September,” said Andrea Heath, a BC Wildfire Service provincial information officer.
“Our weather modeling is saying that our wildfire season will continue until at least mid-September. We’ll likely see it extended a couple of weeks further (than usual).”
Officials are attributing the wildfire season extension to persisting hot and dry weather.
Along with the fire season being extended, the province continues to see a large number of lightning strikes that lead to new fires
