The city's plans to fully upgrade the Glenmore Fire Hall are mostly in line with a third party consultant's report.
Dark Horse Analytics looked at the best locations in the city to build a new fire station.
President Daniel Haight says they're definitely on the right track with Glenmore.
"Of all the possible places to locate in the city, the best single place is right in central Glenmore, in fact on Glenmore and Watson Road," he said.
"Within a few hundred metres or up to a kilometre of that is the best area - and what's more important is egress and access. That improves performance by almost 2%, so almost twice as much as adding it up in the northern area on John Hindle Drive."
Fire Hall 8 is located about 3.5 km away, near the intersection of Valley and Scenic Road.
Haight told council that will serve the area well.
"A Glenmore station would respond to, and be the closest responder, to about 1100 calls per year. So that would make it roughly as busy as your Mission station is today," he said.
"So we're at the point, we're nearing a tipping point, towards needing a station in Glenmore based on this analysis."
In its report, Dark Horse says the refurbishment of Fire Hall 8 will improve fire response times by nearly 3%.
That's better than the 2% improvement that would have been seen if the city had gone with a station further north on John Hindle Drive.
Haight says Kelowna firefighters also take more medical calls than counterparts in other cities.
"When we compare Kelowna to other municipalities, Kelowna stands out as having far more incidents per full-time station per year," he said.
"Kelowna does nearly 2500 calls per station, Abbotsford does 1600, Strathcona County - just under 1200, Toronto - about 1300. So on a per-station basis, Kelowna is a very busy city."
The Dark Horse report predicted an improvement to medical first response time of over 1%.