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2024 Ontario Wildfire History

Ontario recorded 480 wildland fires and 89,841.3 hectares burned in 2024, below the Province's ten-year averages. Red Lake 014 was the year's largest Ontario fire at 18,704.7 hectares.

Wildland fires
480
Area burned
89,841.3 ha
Largest fire
Red Lake 014

18,704.7 ha

Season context

What stands out about 2024

The season was below Ontario's ten-year averages by both fire count and area burned.

Red Lake 014 burned along the Manitoba border and remained monitored for an extended period.

Lower annual totals do not imply that every community experienced low local risk.

Official source

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources — 2025–26 annual report. Official Ontario season statistics and annual-report context.

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What this page does not claim

This is not a reconstructed live map of every moment in 2024, not proof of a fire’s status on a particular day, and not a substitute for agency incident archives. FireRadar’s interactive retained-history product begins with its own observation window and remains clearly separate.

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