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Canada wildfire statistics

A stable reference for the latest defensible national wildfire counts FireRadar can derive from connected direct provincial and territorial incident feeds. National CWFIS context and satellite hotspots are kept outside these official incident totals.

Current national wildfire statistics

Active official fires
537
New in past 24 hours
11
New in past 7 days
40
Recent out · 48 hours
80
Reported active hectares
2,850,211 ha

537 active records currently have a usable reported size.

Jurisdictions with active fires
10
Largest reported active fire
301,240 ha

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Latest source update
Aug 14, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Control status

Source-labelled active-fire status

Canadian agencies do not all publish identical control-status vocabularies. These counts normalize only clear source labels; FireRadar does not guess a control state when the feed does not provide one.

Out of control
265
Being held
51
Under control
66

382 of 537 active incident records match these three common status categories. Remaining records retain their source wording rather than being forced into a category.

Cite this FireRadar resource

FireRadar.ca. Canada Wildfire Statistics: Current Fires, Status & Provinces. Updated August 14, 2026. https://fireradar.ca/data/canada-wildfire-statistics

Province and territory activity

Active official fires by jurisdiction

JurisdictionActive firesReported hectaresRecords with size
Northwest Territories2091,378,844 ha209
Ontario137722,616 ha137
British Columbia111367,923 ha111
Quebec25230,407 ha25
Yukon222,536 ha22
Saskatchewan16104,585 ha16
Manitoba1141,715 ha11
Alberta30 ha3
Nova Scotia21,447 ha2
Newfoundland and Labrador1139 ha1
New Brunswick00 ha0

Coverage: 11 of 11 configured direct-official source jurisdictions are included. All configured direct-official source jurisdictions are currently represented.

What these numbers represent

This page is a snapshot of connected direct provincial and territorial incident feeds. The counts are not satellite hotspot counts and are not a replacement for the originating emergency authority.

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