Regional wildfire map · Alberta

Lakeland Alberta wildfire map & smoke conditions

Track official wildfires and smoke across Alberta's Lakeland region, including Lac La Biche, Cold Lake, large forest and lake areas, recreation destinations, and energy corridors.

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 Lakeland Alberta wildfire snapshot

Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Active official fires
0
Direct Alberta incident points inside the curated Lakeland Alberta regional extent.
Out of control
0
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
Unavailable
No active regional record currently reports a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
Unavailable
0 recent out records are inside the regional extent.

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 Lakeland Alberta

Lakeland Alberta contains extensive boreal forest, hundreds of lakes, Indigenous communities, oil and gas activity, military and industrial areas, recreation destinations, and long rural roads. Fires can affect work sites, campgrounds, community access, utilities, aviation, and smoke across several municipalities, so a regional view adds useful context beyond individual town pages.

Current official incidents

Active official wildfires in Lakeland Alberta

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The current direct-official response contains no active incident point inside FireRadar's curated Lakeland Alberta extent. This is not a guarantee of local safety and does not replace official emergency information.

Latest completed comparison

What changed around Lakeland Alberta

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Matched regional examples from FireRadar's completed 2026-08-122026-08-13 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.

No regional incident from the bounded daily detail list matched a current source-provided point inside this extent. Use the province comparison for the complete jurisdiction-level counts.

Forecast layer

Lakeland Alberta smoke forecast

Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Lakeland Alberta. Forecast smoke is not proof that a nearby wildfire is the source of local smoke.

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.

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Local wildfire maps

Communities in the Lakeland Alberta regional cluster

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Official source and emergency information

Official incident status comes from Alberta Wildfire. FireRadar excludes records that do not meet the direct-feed active-status rules used by the public map.

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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