XterraRising: Big thumbs up for staying relaxed and making the best of a bad situation.
In 2017, when the wildfire started across the river from us and then tore north, transported by steady up river/south to north 60 to 80 km/h winds, all the areas that were irrigated, cleared and/or grazed were spared.
The east side of the river was spared too. That was easily predicted in advance as the inter-mountain valley convection air movements at that time of year are well behaved and relatively stable.
Unfortunately where I live most folks appeared to have missed those high school geography class lessons on convection air movements. Most folks appear to experience the outdoors through the windshield of an automobile. I mention all this, because folks in our village went into hyper-vigilant panic mode for no substantive reason other than sheer ignorance. Sad.
Two First Nation communities, one immediately to the north of us and the other in the Chilcotin district half a days drive to the north of us defied RCMP evacuation orders and saved all the infrastructure in their communities.
A wildfire where we live strikes me as a 1/50 to 1/100 year event, i.e., low probability but a potentially nasty outcome. Those who pay attention will notice that British Columbians rarely die in forest fires or sage brush steppe wildfires. Contrast that to the US experience where folks die on a regular basis in large part thanks to the extensive penetration of low-density suburbs into semi-arid forests.
In this household, we are stocked up on p100 filter masks and have no intention of leaving if a fire starts. The prime strategy is to prevent the neighbour's house to the south from catching fire or burning too close to us.