Track direct official wildfire feeds across Canada, recent extinguished records, and optional satellite hotspot or CWFIS context. Available data refreshes hourly.
742 active official fires, 141 recent out records, and 1,433,311 ha reported active hectares.
Canada wildfire map guide
FireRadar provides a live map of fires in Canada so people can compare direct official incident records, recent out or extinguished fires, national and satellite context, and an official wildfire smoke forecast without treating those datasets as interchangeable. The default active-fire layer prioritizes direct provincial and territorial feeds where FireRadar has confirmed a usable public source. Data refreshes approximately hourly, although each source agency publishes on its own schedule.
Use the search box to look up a Canadian address, community, province, or territory. The address preview summarizes nearby official incidents and satellite hotspots within 50 kilometres and identifies the nearest result in each category when data is available. Selecting a province or territory opens a jurisdiction summary and a dedicated map page. The layer menu lets you isolate official active fires, recent out or extinguished records, NASA FIRMS hotspots, the CWFIS national view, or Environment and Climate Change Canada's FireWork wildfire-smoke forecast.
Official markers come from public provincial or territorial wildfire feeds where available. Status wording, size, cause, first-reported time, and last-updated time depend on what the source publishes. FireRadar keeps unavailable fields unavailable rather than filling them with unrelated values.
The out layer shows recent official records that a source marks out, extinguished, inactive, declared out, being patrolled, or an equivalent status. It is a short-term context layer, not a complete historical wildfire archive.
NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots are thermal detections observed from space. A hotspot can relate to wildfire activity, but it can also be a repeated observation, industrial heat, or another heat source. Cloud, smoke, satellite timing, and source filtering can also hide real activity. Do not add hotspot counts to official fire totals.
The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System layer provides an alternative Canada-wide active-fire view. It may update at a different time or classify records differently from direct local feeds. FireRadar keeps it separate from the default official layer to reduce duplicate counting.
The optional smoke layer uses Environment and Climate Change Canada's FireWork model to show hourly, ground-level wildfire-smoke PM2.5 guidance for up to 72 hours. It is a forecast rather than an observation and is separate from AQHI, monitoring stations, health advisories, and evacuation information.
Open the Canada wildfire smoke forecast →FireRadar is designed for public situational awareness, not emergency decision-making. It does not replace evacuation alerts, fire perimeters, road closures, air-quality advisories, local restrictions, or instructions from emergency officials. For urgent decisions, follow the responsible provincial, territorial, municipal, First Nations, or emergency-management authority.
Questions and answers
FireRadar refreshes available wildfire data approximately once per hour. Individual provincial, territorial, national, and satellite sources publish on their own schedules, so the newest timestamp can differ between records and layers.
No. NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots are satellite-detected heat signals. They can support situational awareness, but they are not confirmed wildfire incidents, fire perimeters, evacuation zones, or official fire counts.
FireRadar combines many source systems that can update at different times and use different status definitions. A provincial or territorial authority remains the primary source for local incident details, restrictions, evacuation information, and emergency instructions.
FireRadar shows records available through the connected public sources. Coverage and published fields vary by jurisdiction, and a missing marker does not prove that no fire, smoke, or local hazard exists.
Use the responsible provincial, territorial, municipal, First Nations, or emergency-management authority for evacuation orders, alerts, road closures, restrictions, and safety instructions. FireRadar is an informational map and is not an emergency notification service.