Evacuation information
Local and provincial or territorial orders are authoritative. Information must remain accessible, current and available when connectivity fails.
Fire · smoke · community
Low national preparedness · local restrictions
Fire is local. Smoke crosses a continent.
CIFFC’s national overview displayed preparedness level 1 when checked on 12 October. EmergencyInfoBC’s newer notices distinguish Okanagan Indian Band evacuation information from Summerland’s Prohibit Entry Order. Confirm current boundaries and instructions with the responsible local authority.
Dated evidence
What is known
These figures preserve the date and source of the reviewed report. Use the official systems below for changing conditions.
- Level 1
- CIFFC national preparedness
- 2 Oct
- Okanagan Indian Band notice updated
- 30 Sep
- Summerland notice updated
CIFFC’s national overview displayed level 1 when reviewed on 12 October. This national measure does not determine a local evacuation or entry restriction.
CIFFC — national overview checked 12 October 2026 ↗EmergencyInfoBC’s Okanagan Indian Band notice describes an Evacuation Order and Alerts for the Bradley Creek Wildfire. Use the Band’s current instructions and address-level map.
Okanagan Indian Band — wildfire evacuation information ↗The updated Summerland notice describes a Prohibit Entry Order. An entry restriction and an evacuation order have different meanings; check the District’s current notice.
District of Summerland — evacuation information ↗Operational information
Check the source before you act.
Conditions and orders can change faster than this reviewed page. These links lead to the responsible public systems.
CIFFC national wildfire overview National preparedness level and interjurisdictional wildland-fire activity.EmergencyInfoBC current emergencies Official B.C. emergency notices; use EmergencyMapBC to check whether a specific address is affected.EmergencyMapBC Address-level evacuation and emergency area map.Canadian Wildland Fire Information System National fire-weather, behaviour and mapping products.Canada wildfire response hub Provincial and territorial links, fire maps and federal response information.Air Quality Health Index Current local air-quality health conditions and forecasts.Canada smoke forecast maps Environment and Climate Change Canada smoke forecasts.
Human priorities
Start with the people closest to the problem.
Clean indoor air
Smoke can travel thousands of kilometres. Children, older adults, pregnant people and people with health conditions can face greater risk.
Remote and First Nations communities
Support must follow community leadership and jurisdiction. Do not scrape, infer or publish sensitive community-level movement data.
Bounded open-source work
Build around accountable response—not around vulnerable people.
Offline evacuation access
Prototype cached, multilingual and low-bandwidth access to official orders without creating a competing alert channel.
Smoke-risk translation
Turn AQHI and official health guidance into accessible formats while preserving source, location and update time.
Infrastructure exposure
Use public data to flag potential exposure of roads, power and communications for expert review—not operational routing.
Accountable fire mapping
Document model provenance, latency and uncertainty. Never represent satellite or AI outputs as a substitute for incident command.
Source ledger
Evidence, with its limits visible.
CIFFC — national overview checked 12 October 2026 ↗Displayed national preparedness level 1 and linked the 29 September situation report when checked. This is a changing national overview.Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre — 25 September 2026 Situation Report ↗Reported national preparedness level 1 and minimal wildland-fire activity as of 25 September 2026.EmergencyInfoBC — active emergency notices ↗Provincial emergency list checked on 12 October; individual notices retain their own update times.District of Summerland — evacuation information ↗Notice updated 30 September 2026 describing a Prohibit Entry Order; consult the District for current restrictions.Okanagan Indian Band — wildfire evacuation information ↗Notice updated 2 October 2026 describing an Evacuation Order and Alerts; consult the Band for current instructions.EmergencyMapBC ↗Provincial map for checking affected locations.Health Canada — wildfire smoke ↗Health effects, AQHI guidance and current-condition links.Natural Resources Canada — CWFIS ↗Authoritative national wildfire information system.