North Bay 72 (2018)
Ontario's annual reporting lists North Bay 72 among the notable 2018 fires and reports a size of 27,285 hectares west of Temiskaming Shores. FireRadar preserves that official historical context as a stable incident page and does not reconstruct missing daily status, evacuation timing, perimeter revisions or cause details from modern feeds.
Historical significance
This incident has distinct historical and local search value because the responsible government or wildfire authority singled it out in a review or annual report. Keeping the event on one source-backed canonical lets FireRadar connect history to current geographic context without implying that present-day conditions reproduce the historical event.
Official source
Government of Ontario — 2018 wildland fire annual reporting. Official Ontario annual reporting identifying the high-profile 2018 fires and their source-reported areas and locations.
Review source material →What this page does not claim
This is not a live incident page, a complete reconstruction of every operational update, a current evacuation or restriction source, or proof of a fire's exact perimeter at a particular moment. Current decisions should use current official sources.
Current wildfire maps for related communities
These links show today's FireRadar context near communities connected to the historical event. They do not recreate 2018 conditions.