Incident authority
Government of the Northwest Territories Environment and Climate Change
GNWT fire-detail pages are the source of truth. Matched geometry is placement context and may not be an exact perimeter.
Season-to-date · NT
Northwest Territories Wildfire Activity — 2026
What FireRadar observed from Government of the Northwest Territories Environment and Climate Change 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
217
Aug 9, 2026
Peak observed active fires
217
Aug 9, 2026
Unique fires in archive
236
20 observed archive days
First observed during coverage
47
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
217
Aug 9, 2026
Snapshots
1
Daily points for Northwest Territories
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 Northwest Territories currently begin Aug 9, 2026.
| Date | Active official fires |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 217 |
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
4
Reported-size changes
33
Official perimeter revisions
0
Largest per-fire max reported size
260,981 ha
Median per-fire max reported size
199 ha
Per-fire maximum source-reported incident size observed by FireRadar; not cumulative hectares burned.
Source classifications
Latest retained cause classification per fire
Natural, Lightning193
Natural40
Natural, Holdover1
Human Caused, Unknown1
Human Caused, Camp Fire Abandoned1
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