Regional wildfire map · Saskatchewan

Northern Saskatchewan wildfire map & smoke conditions

Track official wildfires and smoke across Northern Saskatchewan, including La Ronge, Meadow Lake, La Loche, Buffalo Narrows, Île-à-la-Crosse, and surrounding boreal 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.

Current direct-official data

Current Northern Saskatchewan wildfire snapshot

Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Active official fires
16
Direct Saskatchewan incident points inside the curated Northern Saskatchewan regional extent.
Out of control
0
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
104,585 ha
16 active regional records report a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
22,769 ha
26DB-MADDEN

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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Regional context

Wildfire context across Northern Saskatchewan

Northern Saskatchewan covers immense boreal forest and lake country with Indigenous and northern communities, resource operations, remote highways, aviation-dependent areas, and limited alternate routes. Fires can affect communities and smoke across very large distances, so a regional map is useful without implying that conditions are uniform throughout the north.

Current official incidents

Active official wildfires in Northern Saskatchewan

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Latest completed comparison

What changed around Northern Saskatchewan

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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.

Status changed
26LA-BOISE
Protecting valuesOngoing assessment · reported size 0 ha
Status changed
26LA-OLSON
Protecting valuesOngoing assessment · reported size 0 ha
Forecast layer

Northern Saskatchewan smoke forecast

Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Northern Saskatchewan. 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 Northern Saskatchewan regional cluster

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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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