Public data resource · direct-official scope

FireRadar Canadian Wildfire Dataset

Download the direct-official wildfire records FireRadar can currently show from participating provincial and territorial sources. The public dataset deliberately excludes NASA hotspots and CWFIS national fallback records from the direct-official incident set, and it does not turn an unavailable source into a confirmed zero.

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Available direct active records
846
Direct sources reporting
11 / 11
Latest included incident update
Jul 22, 2026, 8:34 p.m.

The downloadable incident API carries per-source state. Stale last-known-good sources are labelled stale; unavailable or unverifiable sources are excluded until their counts can be shown safely.

Downloads and APIs

Choose the format that fits the job

Current direct-official wildfire records · JSON
application/json

Structured metadata, source-health state, and normalized incident records.

Current direct-official wildfire records · CSV
text/csv

Flat incident table for spreadsheets, analysis, and newsroom workflows, including source-state fields.

Current direct-official wildfire records · GeoJSON
application/geo+json

Point geometry plus normalized incident properties and source-health metadata for GIS use.

Current jurisdiction activity summary · JSON
application/json

Canada and available direct-source jurisdiction activity counts, reported active hectares, and explicit coverage completeness.

Daily jurisdiction activity history · JSON
application/json

FireRadar's growing daily observation series from the point archive collection began.

Field definitions

What the main fields mean

incidentId

Stable source-facing incident identifier when the source provides one.

status / sourceStatus

Normalized display status and the source wording where available. FireRadar does not fabricate missing source states.

sourceState / sourceFreshness

Whether the direct source is current or stale for an included record. Sources in unavailable or unknown states are excluded from the current-record download rather than treated as zero.

reportedSizeHa

Current source-reported incident size when available. It is not national cumulative annual area burned.

firstReportedAt / lastUpdatedAt

Incident-level timestamps only when supplied or defensibly derived from the relevant official record.

longitude / latitude

Incident reference point. It is not a perimeter and should not be treated as the nearest fire edge.

source

The direct provincial or territorial incident feed that supplied the record.

Coverage and provenance

FireRadar aggregates direct official incident feeds when their current or last-known-good state can be shown and keeps national fallback data and satellite detections separate. Coverage can differ by jurisdiction because Canadian agencies publish different fields, update schedules, and access methods.

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Reuse and attribution

Underlying agency data remains subject to the originating source's terms and authority. FireRadar does not claim ownership over government wildfire facts. When republishing FireRadar's normalized dataset or derived summaries, identify FireRadar.ca as the aggregator and retain the responsible official source context. The website terms remain the governing FireRadar reuse reference.

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Historical coverage

FireRadar's detailed archive begins with observations collected from July 20, 2026 onward. It is not backfilled as though FireRadar observed earlier days. Use the archive guide for historical boundaries and official national datasets for broader past-season research.

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— The FireRadar team