Incident authority
Government of New Brunswick
Official wildfire records come from New Brunswick public data when available. Bilingual source values are normalized for the English FireRadar interface without inventing missing information.
Season-to-date · NB
New Brunswick Wildfire Activity — 2026
What FireRadar observed from Government of New Brunswick during 2026. Live incident data, retained daily activity, source-reported size, status transitions, perimeter revisions, and archive boundaries stay separate so the page does not imply coverage FireRadar never collected.
Record provenance
Where this history comes from
FireRadar archive
Jul 20, 2026 → Aug 8, 2026
Only retained observations inside this window are counted. Early daily activity points are recovered from completed per-fire snapshots when the newer aggregate series has no row; CWFIS and satellite records remain excluded.
Kept separate
CWFIS continuity · NASA FIRMS hotspots
National fallback records and satellite detections are not silently added to direct-official provincial history.
Current active official fires
2
Aug 9, 2026
Peak observed active fires
2
Aug 9, 2026
Unique fires in archive
330
20 observed archive days
First observed during coverage
16
Incidents first seen by FireRadar inside this archive window
Interactive daily timeline
FireRadar wildfire activity over time
FireRadar daily observation history begins Aug 8, 2026 and grows forward from there. Each point is a direct-official wildfire snapshot; current-day data is included immediately.
Latest
2
Aug 9, 2026
Snapshots
1
Daily points for New Brunswick
Change in continuous run
Building
Continuous run starts Aug 9, 2026; a second consecutive daily snapshot is needed.
Selected window: Aug 8, 2026 to Aug 9, 2026. Retained snapshots for New Brunswick currently begin Aug 9, 2026.
| Date | Active official fires |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 2 |
Reported active hectares sums usable sizes for currently active official records. It is not cumulative annual area burned and should not be used as a substitute for an official burned-area statistic.
Incident change history
What changed during FireRadar's observed window
Status transitions
27
Reported-size changes
10
Official perimeter revisions
0
Largest per-fire max reported size
97 ha
Median per-fire max reported size
0 ha
Per-fire maximum source-reported incident size observed by FireRadar; not cumulative hectares burned.
Source classifications
Latest retained cause classification per fire
Resident134
Incendiary (Final)79
Unknown (Final)38
Other Industry24
Recreation21
Miscellaneous18
Human5
Lightning (Final)5
Railroads4
Forest Industry2
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