Canada wildfire resource centre

Canadian wildfire information throughout the season

Find official preparedness and restriction information, check current wildfires and smoke, or review recent changes and history.

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Browse FireRadar resources

Choose a task below to find the relevant map, guide or historical record.

Before active fire conditions

Prepare for wildfire season

Use official outlook, drought, Fire Danger, and restriction information to understand the conditions developing before a major incident is nearby.

Seasonal wildfire outlook →

Review official national seasonal wildfire potential and its limits.

Drought & wildfire conditions →

Understand longer-running dryness that can contribute to wildfire conditions.

Current Fire Danger →

View official categorical fire-danger guidance without turning missing data into Low.

Fire bans & restrictions →

Check integrated official restrictions, issuing authorities, and coverage limits.

During active conditions

Check current wildfire conditions

View official wildfires and smoke for a place, then add an important location to your dashboard. Forecasts, observations and satellite hotspots remain clearly labelled.

Canada wildfire map →

See current official incidents, with national records and satellite hotspots clearly separated.

Active wildfires in Canada →

Review current official counts, jurisdictions, reported area, and incident context.

Wildfire smoke & air quality →

Compare modelled wildfire smoke guidance with separate observed AQHI context.

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Add your home, cabin or favourite campsite. FireRadar keeps checking nearby wildfires, fire bans, evacuation information, smoke, air quality and fire danger where supported—all together in your personal dashboard. Your first monitored location is free. No payment required.

After conditions change

Understand what changed and what came before

Review recorded changes and past seasons. FireRadar clearly labels its own observations and imported historical records.

What changed today? →

See newly observed incidents, status changes, recent out fires, and jurisdiction movement.

Historical playback →

Replay wildfire records, modelled smoke and observed air-quality conditions by date.

Wildfire history →

Browse FireRadar-observed and imported historical wildfire context without mixing provenance.

Canada wildfire season review →

Review the latest season using FireRadar history and clear coverage notes.

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Featured wildfire resources

Canada wildfire map

See current official wildfire information across Canada, with national and satellite layers clearly labelled.

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Smoke & air quality

Explore the ECCC FireWork smoke forecast, then compare it with current AQHI observations.

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Wildfire history

Review recent FireRadar observations and older official wildfire records, with dates and sources clearly labelled.

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Dashboard & Alerts

Monitor a place, item, route or condition

Keep checking conditions around a place in your dashboard, or choose a focused Alert for a supported fire, route or condition. Your first monitored location is free. No payment required.

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Add your home, cabin or favourite campsite. FireRadar keeps checking nearby wildfires, fire bans, evacuation information, smoke, air quality and fire danger where supported—all together in your personal dashboard. Your first monitored location is free. No payment required.

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Route alerts

Choose a supported British Columbia or Ontario route for published road changes. Plus can also alert you to selected severe weather and nearby reported wildfires, including eligible SMS alerts.

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Keep up to five important locations in one dashboard, with ten enhanced Alerts, supported browser notifications and eligible SMS.

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Current conditions

Current wildfire conditions & impacts

Move from the national wildfire picture into current official incidents, province and territory views, restrictions, Fire Danger, route impacts, and today's changes.

Active wildfires in Canada →

Current counts from provincial and territorial sources, reported hectares, and recent incident context.

Province and territory wildfire maps →

Browse FireRadar wildfire pages for every Canadian province and territory.

Fire bans & restrictions →

Check integrated official fire bans, prohibitions and wildfire restrictions with issuing authorities, source links and explicit coverage limits.

Wildfire evacuation orders & alerts →

Read verified official notices, issuing-authority links and the limits of evacuation coverage and exact-address matching.

Wildfire-aware highway context →

Review official road information separately from nearby wildfire, smoke, cameras, and other route-impact context on supported Canadian highways.

What changed today? →

See newly observed fires, status changes, recent out fires, and jurisdiction movement.

Current Fire Danger →

View official categorical fire-danger guidance with explicit off-season, delayed, and unavailable states.

Forecasts and observations

Smoke & air quality

Compare modelled wildfire smoke with observed AQHI without treating them as the same measure.

Canada wildfire smoke forecast →

View hourly ECCC FireWork wildfire-smoke PM2.5 forecast guidance.

Current AQHI observations →

View current Air Quality Health Index observations across Canada.

What does the AQHI mean? →

Understand Canada's 1 to 10+ AQHI scale and the health-risk categories behind it.

Forecast and data update timing →

Understand source schedules, FireRadar refreshes, update-status labels, and delayed updates.

Transparency

Understand FireRadar

See where the wildfire information comes from, what each status means, and what the data can and cannot tell you.

How FireRadar works →

Learn where the information comes from, how update times work, and what happens when a source is delayed.

Canadian wildfire data sources →

Review provincial and territorial sources, CWFIS, NASA FIRMS, ECCC FireWork, and their limitations.

Data coverage →

See which provincial and territorial wildfire sources FireRadar currently covers and where coverage is limited.

Wildfire status definitions →

Understand out of control, being held, under control, extinguished, and jurisdiction-specific wording.

Official wildfires vs satellite hotspots →

Learn why confirmed incidents and thermal detections are different datasets and should not be double-counted.

Editorial & data standards →

Review FireRadar's rules for attribution, uncertainty, derived metrics, corrections, and safety language.

Archive and reuse

Historical & research data

Explore FireRadar's wildfire archive, historical summaries and public downloads, with coverage dates and sources clearly labelled.

Historical playback →

Replay FireRadar's recorded wildfire, modelled smoke and observed air-quality information by date.

Data, archive & trends →

Open the central hub for FireRadar's original data products and historical analysis.

Canadian wildfire dataset →

Download current provincial and territorial wildfire records as JSON, CSV, or GeoJSON.

Wildfire history insights →

Explore observed incidents, status transitions, size changes, and perimeter revisions.

Wildfire activity trends →

Compare current jurisdiction activity and FireRadar's growing daily timeline.

Canada wildfire archive →

Understand FireRadar-observed history versus imported official historical context.

Newsroom and professional use

Media & professionals

Use FireRadar wildfire information in reporting, research, presentations, and embeds with clear attribution and methodology.

Media & researcher resources →

Start with public data, methodology, attribution guidance, embeds, and contact pathways.

Media tools →

Access live newsroom products, embed builders, downloadable graphics, and presentation tools.

Presenter mode →

Open a streamlined broadcast view for live wildfire and smoke coverage.

Sharing tools →

Create links that direct people to a specific FireRadar map or page.

My FireRadar

Monitor a place you care about—for free

Add your home, cabin or favourite campsite. FireRadar keeps checking nearby wildfires, fire bans, evacuation information, smoke, air quality and fire danger where supported—all together in your personal dashboard.

Your first monitored location is free. No payment required.

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For emergency decisions, follow official authorities

FireRadar shows wildfire information and links to its 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.

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