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North Slave wildfire map & smoke conditions
Track official wildfire activity and smoke across the North Slave region, including Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake approaches, remote roads, and surrounding boreal landscapes.
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 North Slave wildfire snapshot
Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
Active official fires
22
Direct Northwest Territories incident points inside the curated North Slave regional extent.
Out of control
22
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
307,560 ha
22 active regional records report a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
150,404 ha
ZF039-26
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.
Measured air quality · AQHI
Nearest current AQHI observations
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Stations can be far from rural or remote parts of a region. The nearest observation may not represent conditions everywhere inside the regional boundary.
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Wildfire context across North Slave
North Slave wildfire conditions can involve Yellowknife, nearby Indigenous communities, remote highways, lakes, aviation routes, utilities, and vast boreal areas with limited alternate transportation. A regional page gives users a broader view of incidents and smoke while official territorial and community authorities remain the source for emergency instructions.
Current official incidents
Active official wildfires in North Slave
ZF039-26
Out of control · 150,404 ha
ZF052-26
Out of control · 44,898 ha
ZF029-26
Out of control · 30,331 ha
ZF037-26
Out of control · 23,000 ha
ZF028-26
Out of control · 15,702 ha
ZF049-26
Out of control · 14,537 ha
ZF058-26
Out of control · 12,950 ha
ZF019-26
Out of control · 7,016 ha
SS034-26
Out of control · 5,089 ha
ZF045-26
Out of control · 941 ha
ZF059-26
Out of control · 736 ha
ZF051-26
Out of control · 542 ha
Latest completed comparison
What changed around North Slave
Matched regional examples from FireRadar's completed 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-13 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
North Slave smoke forecast
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond North Slave. 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.
Northwest Territories air quality map →Local wildfire maps
Communities in the North Slave regional cluster
Official source and emergency information
GNWT fire-detail pages are the source of truth. Matched geometry is placement context and may not be 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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