Forecast layer
Athabasca Basin smoke forecast
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Athabasca Basin. Forecast smoke is not proof that a nearby wildfire is the source of local smoke.
Regional wildfire map · Saskatchewan
Athabasca Basin wildfire map & smoke conditions
View official wildfires and smoke across Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin, including far-northern lake country, remote communities, mining operations, aviation routes, and boreal forest.
Use the regional view to understand official incident geography across multiple communities, then compare forecast smoke and measured AQHI before drawing conclusions about local air quality.
Current direct-official data
Current Athabasca Basin wildfire snapshot
Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
Active official fires
3
Direct Saskatchewan incident points inside the curated Athabasca Basin regional extent.
Out of control
0
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
2,425 ha
3 active regional records report a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
1,411 ha
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Regional membership is based on FireRadar's curated geographic extent and source-provided incident point locations. It is not an emergency boundary, predicted spread area, or municipal jurisdiction.
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The dashed outline is FireRadar's curated regional counting extent. Incident points, smoke forecasts, and AQHI observations are separate datasets and should not be interpreted as evacuation boundaries or fire-spread predictions. FireRadar regional extents may overlap near transition areas. Regional totals are useful local summaries and must not be added together to produce a province total.
Regional context
Wildfire context across Athabasca Basin
The Athabasca Basin is a vast northern landscape of boreal forest, exposed rock, wetlands, enormous lakes, Indigenous communities, uranium mining, fly-in locations, and limited road infrastructure. Wildfires can affect aviation, mines and work camps, community supply routes, traditional land use, remote recreation, and smoke across distances that make a single community-centre map inadequate.
Current official incidents
Active official wildfires in Athabasca Basin
Latest completed comparison
What changed around Athabasca Basin
Matched regional examples from FireRadar's completed 2026-08-13 → 2026-08-14 direct-official comparison. The retained incident-detail list is intentionally bounded, so absence here is not presented as proof that nothing changed in the region.
Measured conditions
Air quality and AQHI
AQHI and observed PM2.5 provide measured air-quality context and remain distinct from FireWork forecast smoke. Station coverage varies across a region, especially in rural and remote areas.
Saskatchewan air quality map →Local wildfire maps
Communities in the Athabasca Basin regional cluster
La Ronge wildfire map
View current official Saskatchewan wildfires and nearby satellite hotspots around La Ronge and northern Saskatchewan.
La Loche wildfire map
Track official wildfire activity and smoke conditions around La Loche and the remote boreal communities of northwestern Saskatchewan.
Buffalo Narrows wildfire map
Track official Saskatchewan wildfires and smoke around Buffalo Narrows and northwestern Saskatchewan.
Official source and emergency information
Official incident rows come from the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency public wildfire data. Source dates and status fields are kept separate when the feed supplies them.
FireRadar does not issue evacuation orders, emergency notices, road closures, or fire-spread predictions. Follow provincial, municipal, Indigenous, and emergency authorities for current instructions.
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