⚡️The power is back on in Bamfield and Anacla, thanks to the incredible work of #BCHydro crews who built 63 new poles and 65 spans of electrical wires in 8 days on a 6 km section of the Bamfield Rd burned out by the #MountUnderwoodFire. Heroic efforts - and ahead of schedule! 🙌🏼
📸: BC Hydro
📸: BC Hydro
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
⚡️The power is back on in Bamfield and Anacla, thanks to the incredible work of #BCHydro crews who built 63 new poles and 65 spans of electrical wires in 8 days on a 6 km section of the Bamfield Rd burned out by the #MountUnderwoodFire. Heroic efforts - and ahead of schedule! 🙌🏼
📸: BC Hydro
📸: BC Hydro
BC Hydro expects to have power back on in Bamfield & other impacted communities by this evening 👍🏼👍🏼
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
Mount Underwood Wildfire (V71498) Operational update, August 22, 2025
YouTube video by BC Wildfire Service
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
BC Hydro expects to have power back on in Bamfield & other impacted communities by this evening 👍🏼👍🏼
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire is now classified as
BEING HELD 🎉🎉
3,548 hectares
"Being Held" means the fire is no longer expected to grow beyond its current boundaries
Considering this fire's beginnings, achieving this goal in only 10 days is amazing. An epic amount of work with a huge assist from Nature.
BEING HELD 🎉🎉
3,548 hectares
"Being Held" means the fire is no longer expected to grow beyond its current boundaries
Considering this fire's beginnings, achieving this goal in only 10 days is amazing. An epic amount of work with a huge assist from Nature.
August 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#MountUnderwoodFire is now classified as
BEING HELD 🎉🎉
3,548 hectares
"Being Held" means the fire is no longer expected to grow beyond its current boundaries
Considering this fire's beginnings, achieving this goal in only 10 days is amazing. An epic amount of work with a huge assist from Nature.
BEING HELD 🎉🎉
3,548 hectares
"Being Held" means the fire is no longer expected to grow beyond its current boundaries
Considering this fire's beginnings, achieving this goal in only 10 days is amazing. An epic amount of work with a huge assist from Nature.
The evacuation orders & alerts have been DOWNGRADED for the #MountUnderwoodFire
the evacuation orders have been downgraded to alerts. Campers will be allowed to return to China Creek Campground
the evacuation alert for the southernmost neighbourhood in Port Alberni has been *lifted*
😺
the evacuation orders have been downgraded to alerts. Campers will be allowed to return to China Creek Campground
the evacuation alert for the southernmost neighbourhood in Port Alberni has been *lifted*
😺
www.acrd.bc.ca
August 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The evacuation orders & alerts have been DOWNGRADED for the #MountUnderwoodFire
the evacuation orders have been downgraded to alerts. Campers will be allowed to return to China Creek Campground
the evacuation alert for the southernmost neighbourhood in Port Alberni has been *lifted*
😺
the evacuation orders have been downgraded to alerts. Campers will be allowed to return to China Creek Campground
the evacuation alert for the southernmost neighbourhood in Port Alberni has been *lifted*
😺
Thanks to droughts and heat waves, tiny fires that crews were once able to extinguish in a matter of hours are now ballooning into major blazes.
@tyolsen.bsky.social explains. #MountUnderwoodFire
@tyolsen.bsky.social explains. #MountUnderwoodFire
BC’s Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era | The Tyee
The Mount Underwood blaze confirms it. Here’s why, and what you can do.
thetyee.ca
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thanks to droughts and heat waves, tiny fires that crews were once able to extinguish in a matter of hours are now ballooning into major blazes.
@tyolsen.bsky.social explains. #MountUnderwoodFire
@tyolsen.bsky.social explains. #MountUnderwoodFire
3,603 hectares, down from 3,671. This doesn't necessarily mean it *shrank*, they could've just been able to map the perimeter more accurately with less smoke in the area.
Either way, good news. #MountUnderwoodFire
Either way, good news. #MountUnderwoodFire
BC Wildfire Service
BC Wildfire Service App
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
3,603 hectares, down from 3,671. This doesn't necessarily mean it *shrank*, they could've just been able to map the perimeter more accurately with less smoke in the area.
Either way, good news. #MountUnderwoodFire
Either way, good news. #MountUnderwoodFire
two photos from yesterday by BC Wildfire Service
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
August 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
two photos from yesterday by BC Wildfire Service
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
50 - 60 hydro poles were damaged or destroyed by the #MountUnderwoodFire. Over 20 km of power line needs to be replaced. But BC Hydro has been able to send crews in to begin preliminary work now. hopefully they can get power restored to Bamfield / Anacla soon - estimate right now is about 2 weeks
August 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
50 - 60 hydro poles were damaged or destroyed by the #MountUnderwoodFire. Over 20 km of power line needs to be replaced. But BC Hydro has been able to send crews in to begin preliminary work now. hopefully they can get power restored to Bamfield / Anacla soon - estimate right now is about 2 weeks
#MountUnderwoodFire
No growth reported overnight, still estimated at 3,671 hectares. Hooray. i hope they can have another very productive day today
now i must also go have a productive day of continuing yard cleanup
No growth reported overnight, still estimated at 3,671 hectares. Hooray. i hope they can have another very productive day today
now i must also go have a productive day of continuing yard cleanup
August 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#MountUnderwoodFire
No growth reported overnight, still estimated at 3,671 hectares. Hooray. i hope they can have another very productive day today
now i must also go have a productive day of continuing yard cleanup
No growth reported overnight, still estimated at 3,671 hectares. Hooray. i hope they can have another very productive day today
now i must also go have a productive day of continuing yard cleanup
This video, though 💚💚💚 Operational update from yesterday. Latest fire size estimate is 3,668 hectares
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
August 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This video, though 💚💚💚 Operational update from yesterday. Latest fire size estimate is 3,668 hectares
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there’s a lot to say from these photos about the gratitude we’re feeling that BC Hydro is able to at least safely enter the #MountUnderwoodFire area to begin assessing damage to the infrastructure serving #BamfieldBC. Looking forward to more info.
August 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there’s a lot to say from these photos about the gratitude we’re feeling that BC Hydro is able to at least safely enter the #MountUnderwoodFire area to begin assessing damage to the infrastructure serving #BamfieldBC. Looking forward to more info.
6.6 mm of rain overnite has reduced #MountUnderwoodFire 's behaviour to a smoldering ground fire
But:
"While the rain will reduce fire behaviour and assist with allowing safer access for crews, heavy rain could affect slope stability and cause issues with rockfalls and danger trees in the area."
But:
"While the rain will reduce fire behaviour and assist with allowing safer access for crews, heavy rain could affect slope stability and cause issues with rockfalls and danger trees in the area."
BC Wildfire Service
BC Wildfire Service App
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca
August 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
6.6 mm of rain overnite has reduced #MountUnderwoodFire 's behaviour to a smoldering ground fire
But:
"While the rain will reduce fire behaviour and assist with allowing safer access for crews, heavy rain could affect slope stability and cause issues with rockfalls and danger trees in the area."
But:
"While the rain will reduce fire behaviour and assist with allowing safer access for crews, heavy rain could affect slope stability and cause issues with rockfalls and danger trees in the area."
Hi guys! 💕💕
always neat when i can catch something in #Skycards and also on camera. Also, that grey haze isn't smoke (we're looking west here) : it's RAIN!!!
#MountUnderwoodFire
always neat when i can catch something in #Skycards and also on camera. Also, that grey haze isn't smoke (we're looking west here) : it's RAIN!!!
#MountUnderwoodFire
August 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Hi guys! 💕💕
always neat when i can catch something in #Skycards and also on camera. Also, that grey haze isn't smoke (we're looking west here) : it's RAIN!!!
#MountUnderwoodFire
always neat when i can catch something in #Skycards and also on camera. Also, that grey haze isn't smoke (we're looking west here) : it's RAIN!!!
#MountUnderwoodFire
Video update on the #MountUnderwoodFire from last night, with good aerial views of the fire's location & size. Discussion of the coming rain & how it will help, but not help enough
this morning's response update on the fire's web page is detailed too
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
this morning's response update on the fire's web page is detailed too
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
Mount Underwood (V71498) wildfire fire behaviour update, August 13
YouTube video by BC Wildfire Service
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Video update on the #MountUnderwoodFire from last night, with good aerial views of the fire's location & size. Discussion of the coming rain & how it will help, but not help enough
this morning's response update on the fire's web page is detailed too
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
this morning's response update on the fire's web page is detailed too
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
Quite a colorful sunset Wednesday night in Semiahmoo, thanks to smoke from the #MountUnderwoodFire burning near Port Alberni, BC. #wawx #bcstorm
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Quite a colorful sunset Wednesday night in Semiahmoo, thanks to smoke from the #MountUnderwoodFire burning near Port Alberni, BC. #wawx #bcstorm
TFW you grew up afraid of nuclear war 😬
Note the sea state! Remember that "qualicum" wind i was posting about? I'd call this Beaufort 5 or 6. it was *ripping*. hard to stand straight into it.
The other name for a pyrocumulus cloud is flammagenitus.
#MountUnderwoodFire
Note the sea state! Remember that "qualicum" wind i was posting about? I'd call this Beaufort 5 or 6. it was *ripping*. hard to stand straight into it.
The other name for a pyrocumulus cloud is flammagenitus.
#MountUnderwoodFire
August 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
TFW you grew up afraid of nuclear war 😬
Note the sea state! Remember that "qualicum" wind i was posting about? I'd call this Beaufort 5 or 6. it was *ripping*. hard to stand straight into it.
The other name for a pyrocumulus cloud is flammagenitus.
#MountUnderwoodFire
Note the sea state! Remember that "qualicum" wind i was posting about? I'd call this Beaufort 5 or 6. it was *ripping*. hard to stand straight into it.
The other name for a pyrocumulus cloud is flammagenitus.
#MountUnderwoodFire
High temps from yesterday, upcoming rain. Also updates on the #BearGulchFire & #PortAlberni fire- #MountUnderwoodfire at apx 7 mins into the vid, also great explanation of the #AtmosphericRiver building offshore on the coast of #Washington State and #BC
#WAWX #BCWX
#WAWX #BCWX
August 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
High temps from yesterday, upcoming rain. Also updates on the #BearGulchFire & #PortAlberni fire- #MountUnderwoodfire at apx 7 mins into the vid, also great explanation of the #AtmosphericRiver building offshore on the coast of #Washington State and #BC
#WAWX #BCWX
#WAWX #BCWX
Updated, detailed Response report for #MountUnderwoodFire. I can feel my blood pressure lowering as i type. I can continue to work on "firesmarting" my property as best i can, while still ready to evac w/in 20 minutes if shit goes south (i mean north)
i am very sweaty & also prob. smell smokey rn.
i am very sweaty & also prob. smell smokey rn.
BC Wildfire Service
BC Wildfire Service App
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Updated, detailed Response report for #MountUnderwoodFire. I can feel my blood pressure lowering as i type. I can continue to work on "firesmarting" my property as best i can, while still ready to evac w/in 20 minutes if shit goes south (i mean north)
i am very sweaty & also prob. smell smokey rn.
i am very sweaty & also prob. smell smokey rn.
Due to the 🔥 #MountUnderwoodFire, people are asked to stay away from #BamfieldBC (unless you are a resident) to reduce unnecessary pressures on the community.
Details about fire response, evacuation alerts and more: 👉🏼 wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
Details about fire response, evacuation alerts and more: 👉🏼 wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
August 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Due to the 🔥 #MountUnderwoodFire, people are asked to stay away from #BamfieldBC (unless you are a resident) to reduce unnecessary pressures on the community.
Details about fire response, evacuation alerts and more: 👉🏼 wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
Details about fire response, evacuation alerts and more: 👉🏼 wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...
1,618 hectares. That's almost 4000 acres, for non-metric folks 😩
heard the words "sunny and windy" in today's weather forecast
#MountUnderwoodFire
heard the words "sunny and windy" in today's weather forecast
#MountUnderwoodFire
BC Wildfire Service
BC Wildfire Service App
wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
1,618 hectares. That's almost 4000 acres, for non-metric folks 😩
heard the words "sunny and windy" in today's weather forecast
#MountUnderwoodFire
heard the words "sunny and windy" in today's weather forecast
#MountUnderwoodFire
#MountUnderwoodFire smoke plume sunrise at #DepartureBay #Nanaimo. Much cooler today, less windy though still breezy, and no smoke smell at ground level. Hoping for better conditions for fire fighting crews over the next few days.
August 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#MountUnderwoodFire smoke plume sunrise at #DepartureBay #Nanaimo. Much cooler today, less windy though still breezy, and no smoke smell at ground level. Hoping for better conditions for fire fighting crews over the next few days.
SMOKE FORECAST UPDATE:
Significant smoke aloft due to the #BearGulchFire near Hood Canal and the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island. HRRR smoke forecast loop below, showing big smoke plumes again Wednesday, then smaller on Thursday. Stay tuned! #wawx #bcstorm
Significant smoke aloft due to the #BearGulchFire near Hood Canal and the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island. HRRR smoke forecast loop below, showing big smoke plumes again Wednesday, then smaller on Thursday. Stay tuned! #wawx #bcstorm
August 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
SMOKE FORECAST UPDATE:
Significant smoke aloft due to the #BearGulchFire near Hood Canal and the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island. HRRR smoke forecast loop below, showing big smoke plumes again Wednesday, then smaller on Thursday. Stay tuned! #wawx #bcstorm
Significant smoke aloft due to the #BearGulchFire near Hood Canal and the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island. HRRR smoke forecast loop below, showing big smoke plumes again Wednesday, then smaller on Thursday. Stay tuned! #wawx #bcstorm
We’re reassessing our plan to head to Rathtrevor Beach Park tomorrow. It’s been record-breaking hot this past week (36°C today where we are). And been very weird to come from a lush, green Calgary to a crunchy, dry coast. Feeling for the folks being evacuated. Travel in 2025. #MountUnderwoodFire
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We’re reassessing our plan to head to Rathtrevor Beach Park tomorrow. It’s been record-breaking hot this past week (36°C today where we are). And been very weird to come from a lush, green Calgary to a crunchy, dry coast. Feeling for the folks being evacuated. Travel in 2025. #MountUnderwoodFire
Folks Seattle southward could see AQI in the Moderate to perhaps USG range tonight from the #BearGulchFire. It appears the plume from the #MountUnderwoodFire will remain aloft, though I am curious to see if there's any subsidence east of the Cascades. #wawx #wawildfire #wasmoke
August 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Folks Seattle southward could see AQI in the Moderate to perhaps USG range tonight from the #BearGulchFire. It appears the plume from the #MountUnderwoodFire will remain aloft, though I am curious to see if there's any subsidence east of the Cascades. #wawx #wawildfire #wasmoke
Two wildfires impacting WA tonight with smoke. First, the very active #BearGulchFire with periodic pyrocumulus over the last two hours. Second, the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island producing an impressive smoke plume drifting toward Whatcom County. #wawx #wawildfire #BCFire
August 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Two wildfires impacting WA tonight with smoke. First, the very active #BearGulchFire with periodic pyrocumulus over the last two hours. Second, the #MountUnderwoodFire on Vancouver Island producing an impressive smoke plume drifting toward Whatcom County. #wawx #wawildfire #BCFire