Draft:Bald Range fire

Bald Range fire
Bald Range fire
Date	August 7, 2026-present;
Location	Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Statistics
Burned area	10,360.7 hectares; 40 square miles; 104 square kilometres; 25,602 acres
Land use	Residential, Crown land, forestry
Impacts
Deaths	TBD
Injuries	TBD
Evacuated	20,000+
Structures destroyed	To Be Determined
Ignition
Cause	Unknown

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Instructions · What links here · Bald Range fire (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 6 hours ago by AnxiousVictimoid (talk: D · +) · Last edited 2 hours ago by Significa liberdade

Bald Range fire is an ongoing wildfire in Summerland, British Columbia in the Okanagan. It started on Friday, August 7, 2026 and quickly exploded up to 5000 hectares, and by August 8 it was 10,000 hectares. As a result, the entire community of Summerland was evacuated with nearby Peachland put in Alert. It is onw of the most significant and quickest wildfires of the year.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

↑ "BC Wildfire Service". BC Wildfire Service.
↑ "Fast-moving Canada wildfire doubles in size forcing thousands to flee homes".
↑ "UPDATE: Evacuation order issued for parts of Peachland due to Bald Range wildfire".
↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/summerland-bc-wildfire-aug-7-9.7300528
↑ Press, The Canadian (2026-08-08). "Over 20,000 forced to evacuate from Summerland after explosive wildfire approaches". CTVNews. Retrieved 2026-08-08.
↑ Powrie, Chelsea; Richardson, Casey; Aug 8, Colin Dacre-; Story: 627443, 2026 / 2:50 pm |. "Summerland wildfire among most challenging ever faced by BCWS". www.castanet.net. Retrieved 2026-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[BCWS-1] "BC Wildfire Service". BC Wildfire Service.

[2] "Fast-moving Canada wildfire doubles in size forcing thousands to flee homes".

[3] "UPDATE: Evacuation order issued for parts of Peachland due to Bald Range wildfire".

[4] ttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/summerland-bc-wildfire-aug-7-9.7300528

[5] Press, The Canadian (2026-08-08). "Over 20,000 forced to evacuate from Summerland after explosive wildfire approaches". CTVNews. Retrieved 2026-08-08.

[6] Powrie, Chelsea; Richardson, Casey; Aug 8, Colin Dacre-; Story: 627443, 2026 / 2:50 pm |. "Summerland wildfire among most challenging ever faced by BCWS". www.castanet.net. Retrieved 2026-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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v t e Wildfires in British Columbia
By year	2017 2018 2021
Notable fires	Chinchaga (1950) McLure (2003) Okanagan Mountain Park (2003) Tatoosh (2006) West Kelowna (2009) Binta Lake (2010) Peachland (2012) Elephant Hill (2017) Plateau (2017) Lytton (2021) White Rock Lake (2021) Donnie Creek (2023) McDougall Creek (2023) Bush Creek East (2023) Bald Range (2026)