View official wildfires and smoke along Lake Superior's north shore, including Thunder Bay, Nipigon, Marathon, forested Trans-Canada corridors, parks, and remote recreation areas.
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.
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.
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.
The Lake Superior north shore combines rugged forested terrain, cliffs and river valleys, remote parks, rail and power infrastructure, forestry activity, and long Highway 11 and 17 sections with limited alternates. Wildfires can affect nationally important road travel, parks and backcountry use, nearby communities, utilities, and smoke across a corridor where incidents may be far apart but operationally connected.
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.
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Lake Superior North Shore. Forecast smoke is not proof that a nearby wildfire is the source of local smoke.
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.
Ontario air quality map →Official active and new fire markers come from Ontario AFFES/LIO data. Marker data is informational and may not represent an exact perimeter.
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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