Dozens of Lightning Sparked Wildfires Prompt a Number of Evacuation Orders and Alerts in the Bulkley Nechako

Dozens of lightning-sparked wildfires in the northwest over the weekend have prompted a slew of new evacuation orders and alerts.

In Telkwa, properties west of the river accessed off Tatlow Road are being evacuated due to the 23 hectare Powers Creek blaze.

South of Houston, on the far west edge of Francois Lake, the 130 hectare Parrot Lookout fire is also prompting an evacuation order.

A pair of fires at Sheraton Creek and Stearns Creek in Tintagel are covering a combined 360 hectares.

They have evacuation orders in place for the Kager Lake campsite and Boer Mountain Trails, and alerts covering the area between the fires.

Now covering 300 hectares, the Tsah Creek fire is also leading to orders for properties on either side of Highway 27 near Echo Lake.

More orders are in place for the area around Finger Lake, north of the Provincial Park, due to a 165 hectare blaze.

And orders remain in place for the 47,000 hectare Big Creek fire burning in the Omineca Provincial Park.

Detailed maps on the evacuation order areas and directions on where evacuees should head are available by clicking on each line.

Most of those are also accompanied by evacuation alerts, which you can find maps of all of through this link.

An alert is also in place for the 6 hectare Tatin Lake fire north of Highway 16 and west of Endako.

Dozens of smaller out of control fires are littered across Highway 16 as well, with more than 260 actively burning in BC.