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Eight of the nine wildfires burning on southern Vancouver Island are now under control, with the six-hectare Meade Creek Fire near Lake Cowichan designated as “being held.”
“That doesn’t mean it is under control, but it means it is not growing at this time,” said Coastal Fire Centre spokeswoman Julia Caranci.
Most areas of the south Island received some rain, and now the fire centre is waiting to see what sort of weather will follow.
Caranci said unstable conditions are expected, which could mean more lightning and more fires. Lightning on Sunday follow a hot dry period caused the wildfires already burning, but Caranci said any lightning today is expected to come with heavy rain.
“It doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods yet, however,” she said. “What the rain is doing is not completely putting out the fires but it’s helping to give us a little bit of time to get our crews in.”
The Meade Creek fire, about five kilometres from Laketown Ranch, is the largest of the south Island fires at an estimated eight hectares in size.
Another of the fires is on Mount Healey, near the Sooke Lake Reservoir — the source of Greater Victoria’s water. Less than 10 per cent of the area burned in the Mount Healey fire is believed to be in the reservoir’s catchment area.
Also close to the reservoir is a fire near Horton Lake, while two smaller fires are burning north of Sooke in the area of Trapp Mountain.
The wildfire-danger rating in the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area has dropped from extreme to low, and further growth of fires in the area is not expected.
Caranci said urged people to continue to be careful in the outdoors.
“We still have an open-burning ban,” she said. Only small campfires measuring 50 centimetres across are allowed.
“Like our fire crews, you do not leave an area until the fire that you’ve had is cold to the touch.”
jwbell@timescolonist.com