Canadian wildfire data built to be checked, cited and reused
FireRadar turns connected official Canadian wildfire feeds into transparent current statistics, daily comparisons, retained observation history and machine-readable downloads. This page is the starting point for researchers, data journalists, educators and analysts who need the methodology behind the map as much as the map itself.
Use the smallest source that answers the question
Current Canadian wildfire dataset
Current direct-official incident records in JSON, CSV and GeoJSON, with normalized fields, source health, provenance and reuse boundaries.
Canada wildfire statistics
A stable reference page for current national counts, reported hectares, status labels, largest active incidents and province-by-province activity.
What changed today?
A reproducible day-over-day comparison of newly observed fires, control-status changes, recent out transitions, reported-size revisions and perimeter revisions.
FireRadar history insights
Explore the FireRadar-native observation window, incident history, status transitions, source-reported size changes and retained perimeter revisions.
Canadian wildfire history
Permanent province and year reference pages designed to remain useful after an incident or fire season leaves the live map.
2026 Canada wildfire season review
A living season-to-date resource with explicit archive boundaries and a framework that can mature into FireRadar's year-end Canadian wildfire review.
What FireRadar will and will not claim
Direct-official totals
National incident totals use connected provincial and territorial official feeds. CWFIS national context and NASA FIRMS detections stay separate from direct-official incident totals.
Unavailable is not zero
If a source cannot be verified, FireRadar does not convert the failure into a zero-fire jurisdiction. Current and retained last-known-good states remain explicitly labelled.
Observed history stays honest
FireRadar-native daily observation history begins in 2026. Earlier official records may provide context, but are not presented as observations FireRadar captured at the time.
Reported size is not annual area burned
Incident-level reported hectares are source-reported current sizes where available. FireRadar does not relabel their sum as Canada's cumulative seasonal area burned.
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