The story of Fire Country is intertwined with Northern California, but most of the show is actually shot very far from it. Following its protagonist Bode’s forced return to his hometown of Edgewater, Fire Country shines a light on Cal Fire’s inmate fire camps via Bode’s peculiar story of being firefighting royalty who fights fires as an inmate. Three Rock gives him the chance to give back to the community he turned his back on after a family tragedy prompted him to leave it, necessarily putting him in contact with his friends and family who are part of Cal Fire.
Sharon and Vince Leone being key management figures within Cal Fire often juxtaposes their organization with that of Manny Perez’s Three Rock, which works in a completely different way from Cal Fire and Station 42. The lush greenery surrounding Edgewater should be part of Northern California per Fire Country’s setting, but it actually belongs to Greater Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, where most of Fire Country is filmed. Villages and green areas around Vancouver thus double as Edgewater, with only a few establishing shots happening in an area close to where Edgewater is supposed to be located, in Northern California.
Anmore, British Columbia, Canada
The Building For Edgewater’s Station 42 Is Actually In Anmore
With Station 42 being the base for so many of Fire Country’s central characters, including Gabriela, Jake, Eve, Vince and sometimes even Sharon in Fire Country season 1, its importance in Fire Country is unmatched. The firehouse sees Cal Fire firefighters sprint away from it in almost every episode. Even when it’s not the starting point of trips toward dangerous natural disasters, the firehouse serves as the home-away-from-home for most of Fire Country’s key characters, working as background for personal and professional spats, along with happy moments of camaraderie among firefighters.
A building in the village of Anmore, British Columbia, doubles as Edgewater’s Station 42 in Fire Country (via Hollywood North Buzz). Surrounded by trees and nature, the building perfectly embodies what a firehouse in a small town in Northern California could look like, despite being around 700 miles away from the area Edgewater is supposed to be.
Vancouver Film Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Interiors For Fire Country Are Filmed There
When not fighting fires along with Fire Country’s inmate firefighters, Bode’s family and friends often spend their time at Edgewater’s restaurant/bar, Sharon and Vince’s place, or Edgewater’s hospital. While most of the action necessarily happens outside, given their tendency to fight wildfires, major developments have also taken place indoors, including Gabriela, Eve and Jake’s get-togethers, Manny and Gabriela’s catch-up sessions, or even Vince and Sharon’s date nights.
Interiors for Fire Country are also shot in Vancouver, at Vancouver Film Studios (via IMDb). The studios offer the perfect setting for the various characters’ personal abodes, maintaining generally the same style that makes Edgewater’s bar stand out, but also offering complex sets when Station 42 and Three Rock’s inmates find themselves aiding people indoors when calamity strikes far from nature.
Rio Dell, Humboldt County, California, USA
Establishing Shots For Edgewater Show Rio Dell & Surrounding Areas
While Fire Country might mostly be filmed in and around Vancouver, one Californian town does briefly appear, at least in the trailer. According to Lost Coast Outpost, establishing shots for Edgewater and aerial shots depict respectively Rio Dell, Eel River Valley and Wildwood Avenue in Humboldt County, California, making those brief scenes the only ones not just representing Fire Country’s California, but being part of the actual state of California.
Aerial shots of Rio Dell as Edgewater and its surrounding area work to set the scene for Fire Country’s main town and its relatively bucolic surroundings. However, it’s another village whose streets and buildings effectively make the exteriors of Fire Country’s Edgewater.
Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada
The Village Doubles As Edgewater
With the tight-knit community of Edgewater appearing often in Fire Country, whether to help out Cal Fire and Three Rock or to rebuild and support each other after impactful natural disasters, it makes sense for an actual village to double as Edgewater. Fort Langley, a village community part of the bigger Township of Langley, British Columbia, poses as Fire Country’s Edgewater, with its picturesque, restored old buildings offering the perfect setting for the show’s drama.
Fire Country being set primarily in nature makes the choice to film it in and around Vancouver instead of Northern California not particularly bittersweet, as the area’s forests, rivers and villages can easily replicate the nature of Northern California. With the various locations also being relatively close to one another, the choice to recreate Edgewater, Three Rock and the rural areas in between around Vancouver seems especially sound and in line with the many other TV shows besides Fire Country choosing to do just the same.
Fire Country season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
