2025 Quebec Wildfire History
SOPFEU described 2025 as an atypical season, with 527 forest fires fought in the Intensive Protection Zone and 1,313.7 hectares burned there. A notably large share of activity occurred late in the season, with about 70% of fires occurring from August through October.
Fires from August through October
What stands out about 2025
The season's timing was unusual, with substantial activity extending into autumn.
Human activity caused 87% of the fires reported in SOPFEU's 2025 review.
Low intensive-zone area burned does not describe smoke arriving from fires outside that zone or outside Quebec.
Official source
SOPFEU — 2025 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 2025, 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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