Pear Lake Wildfire in British Columbia Covers 159,317 Hectares
Reports differ on the behaviour and containment status of the Pear Lake wildfire in British Columbia.
2 reports on this incident · first at Aug 16, 2026, 12:57 a.m. ET
Earlier reports
Aug 16, 2026, 12:57 a.m. ETFirst report
Pear Lake Wildfire Active Within Containment Lines at 159,317 Hectares
The Pear Lake wildfire, at a size of 159,317 hectares, remains active.
The fire is active between Big Bar Ferry Road and Big Bar Mountain but is within containment lines, according to castanetkamloops.net. Crews are mopping up and patrolling for spot fires.
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Sources
- Interior Health resumes services in Clinton as Pear Lake wildfire continues to growcastanetkamloops.net
- Controlled burns planned as stable weather conditions settle over Pear Lake wildfirecastanetkamloops.net
- Stable hot and dry weather conditions settle over Pear Lake wildfirecastanetkamloops.net
Revision history
- Version 316 Aug 2026, 20:24current
Removed commentary and meta-text to strictly adhere to reporting facts and attributed conflicting accounts.
- Version 216 Aug 2026, 18:20
Rewrote the containment sentence so it no longer opens with the string "No containment," and expanded it into its own paragraph making explicit that no containment figure has been reported and that the absence is not a zero reading. Added a note to the dek flagging the missing containment figure. Kept the acreage printed exactly as given (159,317 hectares), kept both conflicting fire-behaviour accounts attributed to castanetkamloops.net with neither favoured, and added a closing paragraph framing the disagreement as a sourced range. Sources unchanged.
- Version 116 Aug 2026, 05:10
First published.
- Version 116 Aug 2026, 04:57current
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