The Tenakihi-Mesilinka fire 50 km west of Williston Lake – photo courtesy BC Wildfire Management Branch

Prince George, B.C. – It may be fall, but the wildfire season continues to rage on in the Prince George Fire Centre.

Spokesperson Jill Kelsh with the BC Wildfire Branch, says 43 fires continue to burn in the region.

She says the largest is the Tenakihi-Mesilinka fire approximately 50 km west of Williston Lake at over 61,000 hectares.

To date, Kelsh says there’s been 404 fires (137 human caused, 266 lightning caused), the most since 2010 when there was 474.

She says fires have burnt 202,029 hectares of forest costing the Prince George Fire Centre $73,822,294 (the overall provincial budget $63 million).

Province wide Kelsh says the fires have burnt 359,298 hectares at a cost of $291,548,760.