Live Canada wildfire dashboard

Active wildfires in Canada today

Check the latest available direct-official wildfire records across Canada, including active incident counts, recent out or extinguished fires, reported active hectares, newly reported incidents, and province-by-province totals.

Current Canada wildfire snapshot

FireRadar currently lists 569 active official fires and 73 out or extinguished records updated within the past 48 hours from connected direct provincial and territorial feeds. The 569 active records with a usable reported size total 3,076,908 ha.

Latest source update: Aug 26, 2026, 6:22 p.m. PDT

Control status

Current source-labelled wildfire control status

Canadian wildfire agencies use different operational vocabularies. FireRadar groups only clear source labels into these three common control states and leaves every other status unclassified rather than guessing.

How wildfire statuses differ →
Out of control
310
Being held
68
Under control
79

457 of 569 current active direct-official records match these three common categories. Remaining records keep their source status and are not forced into a control category.

Live direct-official summary

Current wildfires in Canada

Latest source update: Aug 26, 2026, 6:22 p.m. PDT
Active official fires
569

Direct provincial and territorial incident records only.

Recent out / extinguished · 48h
73

Official out or extinguished records updated within the past 48 hours.

Reported active hectares
3,076,908 ha

569 active fires currently report a usable size.

New official fires · 48h
63

Based on usable first-reported or detection timestamps in this same official snapshot.

Jurisdictions with active fires
9

PEI and Nunavut do not currently publish a confirmed direct active-wildfire feed.

Province and territory totals

Hectares include only active records with a reported size. Recent out counts use the past 48 hours. Missing sizes and unavailable direct feeds are not treated as zero.

JurisdictionActiveRecent out · 48hReported active hectares
British Columbia18817423,752 ha
Alberta3032 ha
Saskatchewan13079,655 ha
Manitoba4022,977 ha
Ontario1040719,807 ha
Quebec131195,954 ha
New Brunswick00—
Nova Scotia201,447 ha
Prince Edward IslandUnavailableUnavailable—
Newfoundland and Labrador00—
Yukon22555,529 ha
Northwest Territories22001,627,754 ha
NunavutUnavailableUnavailable—

New official fires reported in the past 48 hours

This list uses the same direct-official snapshot as the summary above and only includes records with a usable first-reported or detection timestamp.

British Columbia
V62019
Aug 26, 2026, 5:42 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
N52018
Aug 26, 2026, 5:30 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
V82017
Aug 26, 2026, 5:30 p.m. PDT
Out of control
Alberta
HWF-148-2026
Aug 26, 2026, 5:28 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
V12015
Aug 26, 2026, 5:23 p.m. PDT
Being held
British Columbia
C12014
Aug 26, 2026, 5:18 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
N52013
Aug 26, 2026, 5:18 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
K42011
Aug 26, 2026, 4:56 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
V12009
Aug 26, 2026, 4:54 p.m. PDT
Being held
British Columbia
V92010
Aug 26, 2026, 4:42 p.m. PDT
Out of control
British Columbia
V62007
Aug 26, 2026, 4:39 p.m. PDT
Out of control
Saskatchewan
26DB-JAN2
Aug 26, 2026, 4:38 p.m. PDT
Not contained

Largest currently reported active fires

This ranking excludes active records without a reported size and does not compare fire danger, growth rate, or community impact.

Ontario
THU036
301,240 ha
Not-under-control
Northwest Territories
ZF018-26
297,400 ha
Out of control
British Columbia
Pear Lake
164,745 ha
Fire of Note
Northwest Territories
ZF039-26
153,000 ha
Out of control
Northwest Territories
ZF017-26
128,911 ha
Out of control
Northwest Territories
FS027-26
88,658 ha
Out of control
Northwest Territories
ZF052-26
84,000 ha
Out of control
British Columbia
Ainslie Creek
67,722 ha
Fire of Note
Northwest Territories
Antoine Lake Complex (Fort Simpson - FS016-26/FS014-26)
66,708 ha
Out of control
Quebec
Rivière Martigny
66,571 ha
Under observation
Northwest Territories
FS036-26
64,423 ha
Out of control
British Columbia
French Bar Creek
61,540 ha
Out of control
Ontario
FOR014
51,928 ha
Being Held
Northwest Territories
FS038-26
47,616 ha
Out of control
Northwest Territories
ZF028-26
47,000 ha
Out of control
Ontario
DRY034
45,800 ha
Not-under-control
Northwest Territories
ZF037-26
43,300 ha
Out of control
Quebec
Rivière Pontax
42,516 ha
Under observation
Ontario
FOR015
42,273 ha
Being Observed
Ontario
SLK005
38,306 ha
Being Observed

What is included

The dashboard counts direct provincial and territorial official incident records currently available to FireRadar. CWFIS national records and NASA FIRMS satellite hotspots are excluded from the official totals to prevent double-counting.

How hectares are calculated

FireRadar sums hectares only for active official records that report a valid size. Missing sizes remain unavailable and are never converted into zero hectares.

Safety and limitations

FireRadar is an informational map, not an emergency authority, evacuation service, or fire-spread forecast. Always follow provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency officials.

Questions and answers

Active wildfires in Canada FAQ

How many active wildfires are in Canada right now?

FireRadar currently counts 569 active official wildfire records across the connected provincial and territorial feeds. This number can change as source agencies publish updates.

Does the Canada wildfire count include satellite hotspots?

No. NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots are thermal detections and are kept separate from direct-official wildfire incident totals. CWFIS national records are also shown as a separate optional dataset to reduce duplicate counting.

Why can FireRadar totals differ from another wildfire website?

Wildfire websites can use different source systems, refresh times, status definitions, expiry windows, and duplicate-handling rules. FireRadar's official total uses connected direct provincial and territorial incident feeds and does not add satellite hotspots or CWFIS records to that count.

How often are active wildfire totals updated?

FireRadar checks connected official-wildfire sources on a controlled production schedule and republishes current snapshots only after validation succeeds. The production cadence can change as scheduling controls evolve, while each upstream authority still publishes on its own schedule. Source-update and FireRadar-ingestion timestamps therefore remain the best indicators of actual freshness for a record or jurisdiction.

Does the reported-hectares total include fires with missing sizes?

No. FireRadar sums only active official records with a valid reported size. Missing or invalid sizes remain unavailable and are not converted into zero hectares.

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