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South Slave wildfire map & smoke conditions
View official wildfires and smoke across the South Slave region, including Hay River, Fort Smith, highways, Great Slave Lake approaches, and adjoining 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 South Slave wildfire snapshot
Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
Active official fires
13
Direct Northwest Territories incident points inside the curated South Slave regional extent.
Out of control
11
Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
22,371 ha
13 active regional records report a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
8,160 ha
SS016-26
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 South Slave
South Slave communities depend on a limited highway network, rail and marine logistics, aviation, and essential services spread across a large boreal landscape. Wildfires can affect transportation and smoke over wide distances, making a regional view useful while territorial and local authorities remain authoritative for evacuations and closures.
Current official incidents
Active official wildfires in South Slave
SS016-26
Out of control · 8,160 ha
SS034-26
Out of control · 5,089 ha
SS022-26
Out of control · 3,960 ha
SS008-26
Out of control · 2,000 ha
SS021-26
Out of control · 1,415 ha
SS050-26
Out of control · 473 ha
SS035-26
Out of control · 211 ha
SS040-26
Out of control · 100 ha
SS052-26
Out of control · 15 ha
SS045-26
Out of control · 10 ha
SS017-26
Out of control · 1 ha
Klewi Complex (SS004-26)
Being held · 737 ha
Latest completed comparison
What changed around South 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
South Slave smoke forecast
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond South 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.
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Communities in the South 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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