2025 Canada Wildfire History
Federal reporting described 2025 as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record. Public Safety Canada reported more than 6,000 wildfires and more than 8.3 million hectares burned as of October 30, while Environment and Climate Change Canada's year-end weather review later described roughly 8.9 million hectares burned. FireRadar presents those figures as dated federal reporting rather than forcing them into false precision.
Public Safety Canada, October 30, 2025
ECCC year-end weather review; earlier federal snapshot was >8.3 million ha
Federal 2025 year-end characterization
What stands out about 2025
Prairie wildfire impacts were especially severe, with Saskatchewan and Manitoba accounting for a large share of the national burned area.
More than 85,000 people had been evacuated since April by the October 30 federal update, including more than 45,000 people from First Nations communities.
Because federal 2025 totals evolved as the season closed, FireRadar labels the source and timing rather than presenting one changing snapshot as an immutable final database value.
Official source
Public Safety Canada — 2025 wildfire update. Federal October 30 season update; the page also explains the later ECCC year-end area-burned estimate.
Review source material →What this page does not claim
This is not a reconstruction of every day in 2025, proof of a fire’s status on a particular date or a substitute for agency incident archives. FireRadar’s interactive history begins with its first recorded observation.
Read FireRadar archive boundaries →Compare nearby seasons
Province-level official history
For 2025, FireRadar publishes province and territory history only when the official records are complete enough to use responsibly. Missing jurisdictions are omitted rather than reconstructed from incomplete current information.