Understand the data behind the map
Explore wildfire data, smoke and air-quality tools, historical information, methodology, public datasets, media tools, and the official sources behind FireRadar. The map remains the core product; Resources is the place to understand what you are seeing and discover what else FireRadar can do.
Featured resources
Canada wildfire map
See the live national map with direct-official incidents and clearly separated context layers.
Smoke & air quality
Explore the ECCC FireWork smoke forecast, then compare it with current AQHI observations.
Wildfire history
Move beyond the current snapshot with retained FireRadar observations and historical wildfire context.
Wildfire data
Move from the national picture into current official incidents, provincial views, daily changes, and retained history.
Current direct-official counts, jurisdiction totals, reported hectares, and recent incident context.
Browse FireRadar wildfire pages for every Canadian province and territory.
See newly observed fires, status changes, recent out fires, and jurisdiction movement.
Explore retained FireRadar history and province-level historical views.
Smoke & air quality
Keep modelled smoke separate from observed air-quality health risk while making it easy to compare both.
View hourly ECCC FireWork wildfire-smoke PM2.5 forecast guidance.
View current Air Quality Health Index observations across Canada.
Understand Canada's 1 to 10+ AQHI scale and the health-risk categories behind it.
Understand source schedules, FireRadar refreshes, freshness labels, and delayed-data states.
Understand FireRadar
See where the data comes from, how FireRadar validates it, what each status means, and where the limits begin.
Understand ingestion, validation, dataset separation, publication, and last-known-good behaviour.
Review direct official feeds, CWFIS, NASA FIRMS, ECCC FireWork, and source-specific limitations.
See FireRadar's current jurisdiction coverage and the boundaries of direct-official data.
Understand out of control, being held, under control, extinguished, and jurisdiction-specific wording.
Learn why confirmed incidents and thermal detections are different datasets and should not be double-counted.
Review FireRadar's rules for attribution, uncertainty, derived metrics, corrections, and safety language.
Historical & research data
Use FireRadar's growing archive, derived intelligence, and public downloads without losing the provenance boundary.
Open the central hub for FireRadar's original data products and historical analysis.
Download current direct-official FireRadar records as JSON, CSV, or GeoJSON.
Explore observed incidents, status transitions, size changes, and perimeter revisions.
Compare current jurisdiction activity and FireRadar's growing daily timeline.
Understand FireRadar-observed history versus imported official historical context.
Media & professionals
Use FireRadar in reporting, research, presentations, and embeds with clear attribution and methodology.
Start with public data, methodology, attribution guidance, embeds, and contact pathways.
Access live newsroom products, embed builders, downloadable graphics, and presentation tools.
Open the streamlined broadcast presentation experience for live wildfire and smoke coverage.
Create links and reusable ways to direct people to the FireRadar view that matters.
Save what matters. Let FireRadar remember it.
The core FireRadar product stays free for everyone. A free account adds cloud-synced Saved items, one active email alert, and complete retained FireRadar card history so you can come back to the places and fires you care about.
Need more monitoring and alert capacity later? FireRadar Plus extends the free account without putting core wildfire information behind a paywall.
For emergency decisions, follow official authorities
FireRadar provides situational awareness and transparent links back to official sources. Evacuation orders, emergency instructions, road closures, and public-safety directions should always come from the responsible provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, or federal authority.
Resources exists to make FireRadar easier to understand and more useful without turning public wildfire information into a registration wall.
— The FireRadar team