Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️shit.
very close to #portalberni
must have only started in the past hour or two.
Looks like it is south of the city, near China Creek.
the wind is thankfully and rarely blowing NNE. So might be moving away from town. No info yet.
The south facing Alberniweather WebCam has the best view. 😢
Apparently, it is very near China Creek. Please do not approach that area.
Or anywhere on the southside of town to ensure emergency vehicles can get down there
https://www.youtube.com/live/8iLgZl2tDYI?si=2IVTg7MqMyAGYOYg
Apparently, it is very near China Creek. Please do not approach that area.
Or anywhere on the southside of town to ensure emergency vehicles can get down there
https://www.youtube.com/live/8iLgZl2tDYI?si=2IVTg7MqMyAGYOYg
Alberniweather South Webcam
3/n View from the water last hour.
Live Youtube with a view: https://m.youtube.com/live/8iLgZl2tDYI?si=2IVTg7MqMyAGYOYg
#bcwildfire #chinacreek #portalberni
4/n Not going to sugar coat this.
Tonight, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday could be very scary.
If the rain comes on Friday that will help immensely.
I believe every person in the City of Port Alberni should Get a grab and go bag ready right now.
Make arrangements with friends and family out of town if you can just in case.
This is serious. It could go bad very quickly. The best we can do is be over prepared.
630ha at 10:30PM. It is close to the ridge but hasnt topped it yet.
Working on our grab and go.
Documents are gathered. A few clothes. Food for the cats. And four 4L jugs of water. One for each of the family and one for the two cats. (washed then out with Dawn first to get out any milk remnants)
If we have to, we could go right now, with this stuff but we'll gather more tomorrow.
Update at 12AM. I have updated the link to the post on Alberniweather to be:
www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire
Not too much to report. The ACRD appears to be sending updates only through the VoyentApp currently. I have duplicated their messages on the post and added other information.
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
1AM: I'm headed to bed. Wil be up before 8AM and will try to update asap. ACRD Voyent Alert app is the best source as will be The Peak in the morning when they come on the air.
Stay safe out there and be prepared for anything.
6AM Update -- NOW is the time to prepare to evacuate.
https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire/
There are no information updates from the ACRD or BCWildfire yet this morning. We hopefully have until tomorrow before the wind and weather shifts and strong Inlet/Southerly winds could return.
The weather overnight was not great. DId not go below 20ºC. It will be very hot today.
Stay safe and prepare today. Links to Grab and Go stuff are on the page.
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
definitely looks like less activity this morning, but it is starting to rise again over the ridge #bcwildfire #chinacreek #portalberni
House Preparation.
Doing regular watering ✅
Weed wacked tall grass ✅
About to mow/mulch.
Will lay out sprinker for house defence when the watering is done.
8AM update is up. - Now is the time to Prepare your Home, your Family in case the fire turns toward Port Alberni.
No updates from the ACRD or BCWildfire yet. The weather conditions are getting very hot and dry very quickly. I expect the fire will be very very dangerous again today but moving away from Port Alberni thanks to NNW winds continuing this morning.
Hope those winds continue as long as possible.
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
it is going big now as the sun rises and humidity goes down. 🔥
BCWF should have a perimeter estimate out soon.
Good News:
BCWF has updated their map with a perimeter of the fire.
Good news, it has not come much closer, if at all, to Port Alberni. All growth has been toward the southeast (thanks to the NNW wind!)
Current distance from the corner of Anderson Ave and Ship Creek Road in Port Alberni to the fire edge:
9.7km
11:20AM Update
Fire now over 850 hectares. Moving south and east away from Port Alberni. Still very active. I have included a new Weather Forecast.
Today and Tomorrow will be the most difficult as it is still supposed to be very hot. Feels like 40 today and 32 tomorrow.
There is rain expected on Thursday evening but not until after a long period of south easterly winds that could push the fire toward Port Alberni.
https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire/
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
ACRD has released its first evacuation order due to the fire from roughly the China Creek Campground to the Franklin River shops and Cameron Main Line logging road (between Bamfield Road and Nitinat.
New ACRD Underwood Fire with updated information.
I believe most if not all of these areas were evacuated by last night.
wind has shifted to the south, just a light breeze, but enough to drag smoke up the inlet into town. Smells.
Alberniweather
37°C
28% RH
SW 8kph
to the recycledepot with the bad flammables that have been hanging out in the yard for too long, #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
Update: now 1391 hectares (doubled since 10PM last night) but appears to be moving away from populations #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
1:30PM Update - 1400 hectares now.
Air quality worsening.
Extremely hot in the Valley.
Wind light and variable. Dragging smoke into harbour.
Stay safe out there, continue making preparations as best you can.
Fire is still burning at Rank 4 and 5.
https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire/
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
To see conditions over the past day, go to the Almanac
https://www.alberniweather.ca/almanac-view/
or Neo VIew
https://www.alberniweather.ca/neo-view/
One graph I am watching there is the Wind Direction. You can see that from just after noon yesterday to nightfall, it is steadily from the NE (15ºC).
The Vector graph shows the predominant direction in the past day.
However, since sundown yesterday, winds have been light and much more variable.
2PM Update
9.2km from town (about 200m closer)
Wind seems to be predominantly W or SW at the moment.
2:45PM Aug 12 – Underwood Fire Updates – 1400 hectares – Wind light Variable. Fire 9.2km away
Critical Links The link to this post is now: https://www.alberniweather.ca/underwoodfire ACRD posting updates on the Voyent Alert App ACRD Mount Underwood Fire webpage with Evac Orders. ACRD Emergency Facebook Updates. BC Wildfire page for Mt. Underwood Fire. Make a Grab and Go Bag Make your Home Fire Safe Listen to the Peak Radio. Live Weather...
Squadron of 4 Fireboss skimmers now actioning the fire.
Looks like they are taking water from the Alberni Inlet.
It is not lost on ANYONE in Port Alberni that we are one day after the August 11 2024 anniversary of the Hawaii Mars water bomber being officially flown to a museum. The Phillipine Mars was sent to Arizona a few months later.
Sigh…
Looks like the main aerial attack effort is trying to protect the Franklin River log sort. This is south of the China Creek marina on the Alberni Inlet at the mouth of Franklin River. #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
Environment Canada has issued an Air Quality Advisory for Inland Vancouver Island including Port Alberni. May also impact Lake Cowichan, Tofino, Ucluelet, Bamfield, Nitinat.
(Ironically, the wind has turned around again and is a steady breeze about 8kph from the NE. Air quality has improved in the City for now.
https://aqwarnings.gov.bc.ca/warnings/2025-08-12_wildfire_smoke_issue.html
Alberniweather has reached its high for the day. We got to 38.6ºC at 2:14PM. The wind has brought that down to 35.4ºC currently.
Wind is currently from the NNE at 13kph, pushing the fire away from the City thankfully but it is likely growing very fast.
Expect to be surprised by the size of the new area number when BCWF updates later this evening.
Hopefully crews have been successful protecting any structures.
#PortAlberni #UnderwoodFire #BCWildfire
#bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
Time to mask up outside. Smoke and ash in the air.
#PortAlberni #UnderwoodFire #BCWildfire #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
New size update 1,447hectares.
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2025&incidentNumber=V71498&source=map
I am out of the house right now but I will post a weather forecast update after 9PM tonight.
#PortAlberni #UnderwoodFire #BCWildfire #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
New evacuation alert for south Port Alberni Cameron Heights and the adjacent Tseshaht reserve.
go to ACRD page and Voyent App for details!
https://www.acrd.bc.ca/mount-underwood-wildfire
#PortAlberni #UnderwoodFire #BCWildfire #bcwildfire #underwoodFire #portalberni
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@alberniweather If you don’t mind me asking, I’m not clear on which areas are under warning and with are under order. I’m seeing different electoral districts depending where I look, I think?
@Caution no worries.
There are two fires in relatively close proximity. Look for info about the (now "held") #WesleyRidge fire on https://rdn.bc.ca. Nanaimo Regional District. There are both orders and alerts.
The new #UnderwoodFire is in the ACRD. Port Alberni district. There is only one order last I saw for an area at China Creek campground and near the Bamfield road, no large subdivisions or anything.
https://acrd.bc.ca
peter (not the famous one)@alberniweather I'm kinda stunned that at 11 last night it was about 650 ha, and as of 2:30 today it's almost 1400.
@harmoniousanger doubled in less than 12 hours :(
Extremely hot. Extremely dry forest. And wind pushing it
Robin Monks 
@alberniweather the rust adds a certain flair to the paint though!
nshrubs@alberniweather Can see the top of this from the ferry down here in the Seattle area. ☹️ Stay safe!
@Nshrubs wow! Really!? Do you have a picture?
@alberniweather It didn't show up well enough in a crappy iphone photo - not enough contrast with the smoke already in the air - but there were no clouds in the sky except the top of this one (I'm assuming a pyrocumulus) peeking out over the end of the Olympic Peninsula (about Port Townsend area, I think).
@Nshrubs wow, that would be quite something if it is visible from there!
@alberniweather Edmonds/Kingston ferry, so north of downtown Seattle.
@alberniweather This evening we could see the smoke plume from the fire over Mt. Baker. ☹️