Smoke and AQHI context
Smoke forecasts are model estimates and AQHI stations report combined local air-quality conditions. They should be checked together, and neither proves that smoke is caused by the nearest mapped fire.
View current official Quebec wildfires and nearby satellite hotspots around Chibougamau and Nord-du-Quebec.
Version françaiseDistances are straight-line measurements to source-provided point locations, not fire perimeters, evacuation boundaries, or safety ratings.
These timestamps have different meanings. A page render or ingestion attempt does not replace the owning agency's source-update time.
There is 1 current official Quebec fire point within 100 km of the community centre. The nearest current official point is 94 km northeast near Lac Deleuze 2.
Open the nearest official fire record →Smoke forecasts are model estimates and AQHI stations report combined local air-quality conditions. They should be checked together, and neither proves that smoke is caused by the nearest mapped fire.
Official incident information comes from SOPFEU. FireRadar normalizes public status and cause labels for display while preserving unavailable fields as unavailable.
Chibougamau is a northern service centre surrounded by boreal forest, lakes, resource roads, and remote communities. Current SOPFEU and local emergency information is essential because incident points do not show access limits, predicted spread, or evacuation areas.
Official incident information comes from SOPFEU. FireRadar normalizes public status and cause labels for display while preserving unavailable fields as unavailable.
Open SOPFEU →Distances are calculated from the centre of the selected location to the point supplied for each record. A fire can be large, irregularly shaped, remote, or represented by a reference point rather than an exact perimeter.
FireRadar does not issue evacuation orders, emergency alerts, road closures, or fire-spread predictions. Follow provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency authorities for current instructions.
Same-province communities are prioritized, followed by the nearest available local map pages.