One of the three, a small fire burning outside Port Alberni near Rogers Creek and the Hole in the Wall Trail, is considered under control.
Three new wildfires have been discovered on Vancouver Island in the past few days, all of them well under half a hectare in size and believed to be human-caused.
The latest is a spot fire found Monday morning near Mitchell Bay, on a small island off Port McNeill.
The B.C. Wildfire Service and Port McNeill Fire Rescue responded, said Coastal Fire Centre information officer Sam Bellion.
The wildfire service also responded briefly to a fire near Nanoose Bay discovered Sunday, but it’s now in the hands of the Nanoose Bay Fire Department.
Another small fire burning outside Port Alberni near Rogers Creek and the Hole in the Wall Trail is deemed to be under control.
A 5.8-hectare fire about 19 kilometres northeast of Port Renfrew near Harris Creek, and a 19-hectare fire near Nahmint Mountain, south of Sproat Lake, are also both deemed under control.
The Nahmint fire was discovered June 8.
Bellion cautioned people to be careful in the outdoors as the weather gets warmer and drier and the number of lightning-caused fires increases.
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