2023 Quebec Wildfire History
SOPFEU describes 2023 as a record-breaking season. In the Intensive Protection Zone, 566 fires burned nearly 1.1 million hectares; in the Northern Zone, 147 fires burned more than 3.2 million hectares, for roughly 4.3 million hectares across the two reported zones.
147 fires; ~4.3 million ha across both reported zones
What stands out about 2023
SOPFEU reports that 99.9% of the area burned that year was caused by lightning.
The 2023 scale exceeded the total area burned over the preceding 20 years in SOPFEU's comparison.
Protection-zone definitions matter when comparing Quebec statistics with national datasets.
Official source
SOPFEU — wildfire season review. Official SOPFEU season statistics with protection-zone context.
Review source material →What this page does not claim
This is not a reconstructed live map of every moment in 2023, 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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