PG PulsePrince George, British Columbia

Live in Prince George

Weather, air, rivers, fire, power and roads for the city and region right now, refreshed from official sources every few minutes.

Weather

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada; Open-Meteo. Report a data problem

Air quality

Source: ECCC Air Quality Health Index. Report a data problem

Rivers

Source: ECCC Water Survey of Canada (provisional). Report a data problem

Wildfire

Source: BC Wildfire Service. Report a data problem

Power outages

Source: BC Hydro outage map. Report a data problem

Daylight

Source: Open-Meteo. Report a data problem

Aurora (Kp index)

Source: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Report a data problem

Roads

Source: DriveBC Open511. Report a data problem

Earthquakes

Source: Earthquakes Canada, NRCan. Report a data problem

The city in numbers

Population (2025 estimate)

85,944

+1.4% on 2024

Median age

38.8years

BC: 42.8

Median household income

$88k

2020, before tax. BC: $85k

Unemployment, Cariboo region

6.2%

September 2026. BC: 6.7%

Source: Statistics Canada: 2021 Census, population estimates (table 17-10-0155) and Labour Force Survey (table 14-10-0462), as of September 2026. Report a data problem

Recent trends

Readings PG Pulse has recorded from the live sources above, as hourly averages. Every series is in the public API at /api/v1/history.

Temperature

TemperatureFeels like

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Fraser River level in town

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Customers without power

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BC Hydro outages within 150 km of downtown, hourly average.

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Air quality (AQHI)

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Regional map

Switch layers on and off. Wildfires cover the whole Prince George Fire Centre; outages and road events are within 150 km of downtown.

Tap a marker for details. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Highway cameras

All DriveBC cameras

Source: DriveBC highway cameras. Report a data problem

Sources

How these figures are gathered

Live figures are fetched from these providers and cached briefly on our server. Provisional real-time data can be revised by the source. When a source is down we say so rather than guess.

Environment and Climate Change Canada: city weather for Prince George: Current conditions, text forecast, alerts, AQHI
Open-Meteo forecast and air quality APIs: Hourly and 16-day model forecast, sunrise and sunset
Water Survey of Canada real-time hydrometric data: Stations 08KE018, 08KB001, 08JC002, 08KC001; historical daily means (HYDAT)
BC Wildfire Service: Active fires, danger rating, bans and evacuation orders
DriveBC: Open511 road events API
Statistics Canada: 2021 Census Profile, population estimates, Labour Force Survey
OpenStreetMap: Map tiles