# BC Wildfire Service bulletin summary

- Captured: 2026-08-22T06:48:32-07:00
- Official bulletin: https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/category-2-open-fire-prohibition-planned-for-the-northwest-fire-centre/
- WP JSON endpoint: https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?slug=category-2-open-fire-prohibition-planned-for-the-northwest-fire-centre
- Bulletin date: 2026-08-21T12:20:09
- Bulletin title: Category 2 open fire prohibition planned for the Northwest Fire Centre

## Key official facts extracted

- Effective at 12 p.m. (noon) Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday, August 22, 2026, Category 2 open burning is prohibited across the entire Northwest Fire Centre.
- The affected fire-centre area includes the Nadina Forest District, Coast Mountain Forest District and Skeena Stikine Forest District.
- Category 3 open burning remains prohibited across the entire Northwest Fire Centre.
- The Category 2 and Category 3 prohibitions remain in place until noon Oct. 2, 2026, or until rescinded.
- The specific prohibition does not apply to Category 1 campfires that are half a metre high by half a metre wide or smaller, or to cooking stoves using gas, propane or briquettes, but local/municipal/regional/BC Parks rules still need checking.
- Prohibited related equipment/activities listed by BCWS: air curtain burners, carbonizers, binary exploding targets, fireworks, burn barrels or burn cages, and controlled air incinerators.
- The prohibition applies outside municipal boundaries and also applies to specified Crown-land categories inside municipal boundaries, plus all lands in the District of Stewart municipality.
- BCWS states offence consequences can include a $1,150 ticket, $10,000 administrative penalty, court fine up to $100,000 and/or up to one year in jail; if a fire causes or contributes to wildfire, penalties may reach $1 million and/or up to three years in jail plus firefighting costs.

## Editorial caveat

This is an official prevention/restriction bulletin, not an evacuation order, fire boundary, road detour or cause determination.