Kamloops Fire Centre prohibitions and restrictions

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The Kamloops Fire Centre spans from the northern border of Wells Gray Provincial Park to the U.S. border in the south, and from the Bridge River in the west to the Monashee Mountains in the east, including the Southern Okanagan and the Lytton and Lillooet areas. The regional office is based in Kamloops, B.C.

On this page

• Current open fire prohibitions
• Additional restricted activities and equipment (including off-road vehicle prohibitions)
• Current area restrictions
• About prohibitions and restrictions

Current open fire prohibitions and restrictions 

Municipalities are responsible for regulating open fire within their boundaries. Please check with your local government before lighting any fire.

 Information and map

Additional restricted activities and equipment 

The following activities and use of equipment, material and substances are also restricted throughout the Kamloops Fire Centre:

• Air curtain burners
• Carbonizers
• Binary exploding targets
• Fireworks, as defined in the Fireworks Act of BC
• Burn barrels or burn cages of any size or description, except when used for a Category 1 campfire as defined in the Wildfire Regulation
• Controlled air incinerators
• Sky lanterns
• Wood fired hot tubs, wood fired pizza ovens and other wood fired devices unless vented through a structure that has a flue and is incorporated in a building

Current restrictions

Ainslie Creek (V10755) area restriction - in effect August 14, 2026 

Bald Range Wildfire (K51490) area restriction - in effect August 29, 2026

About prohibitions and restrictions

To limit the risk of wildfires and address public safety concerns, BC Wildfire Service may establish prohibitions (fire bans) through legal orders to prohibit or restrict certain activities and describe where they apply, including:

• Open fire prohibition orders, commonly referred to as "fire bans", prohibit the use of some or all categories of open fire (Wildfire Act, section 10)
• Equipment/activity prohibition orders prohibit the use of certain activities, equipment, materials or substances (Wildfire Act, section 12)
• Area restriction orders restrict access to areas where there are ongoing fire suppression activities (Wildfire Act, section 11)
• Leave area orders require all persons in a specified area to leave, where government is engaged in fire control (Wildfire Act, section 13)

Information about BC Wildfire Service prohibition and restriction orders are circulated in the media, sent to local and Indigenous governments and posted publicly on the BC Wildfire Service blog.