FireRadar for Media & Researchers
Use FireRadar as a transparent aggregation and discovery layer for current Canadian wildfire information. Every direct-official count should retain its provincial or territorial source context, and FireRadar should never replace the responsible authority in safety reporting.
Counts exclude NASA hotspots and CWFIS national fallback records. A direct source in an unavailable or unknown state is excluded rather than treated as a confirmed zero. A stale but last-known-good source is labelled stale below.
Direct-source counts with source state
Largest active fires in available direct sources
This ranking uses the latest usable source-reported size attached to active records from direct sources whose current/last-known-good state can be shown. Missing sizes are omitted, and the result is not a ranking of cumulative national annual area burned.
Attribution
For a FireRadar-derived count or comparison, a useful attribution is: “According to FireRadar.ca, using direct provincial and territorial wildfire sources…” Then link the relevant FireRadar page and, for safety-critical reporting, the responsible official authority.
Press, data corrections and research contact
Questions about methodology, source discrepancies, data reuse, or media citation can be sent to hello@fireradar.ca. Include the fire identifier, province or territory, source URL, and timestamp when reporting a data discrepancy.
What FireRadar should not be cited for
FireRadar does not issue evacuation orders, road closures, emergency alerts, or predictive spread guidance. It also does not treat satellite hotspots as confirmed fires. Use responsible emergency authorities for decisions affecting life, property, travel, or evacuation.
Thank you for using and supporting FireRadar.
— The FireRadar team