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Wood Buffalo wildfire map & smoke conditions
View official wildfires and smoke conditions across the Wood Buffalo region around Fort McMurray, Highway 63, remote communities, and northeastern Alberta's 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 Wood Buffalo wildfire snapshot
Latest source update: Aug 14, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Active official fires
0
Direct Alberta incident points inside the curated Wood Buffalo 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.
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 Wood Buffalo
The Wood Buffalo area contains extensive boreal forest, oil sands and energy infrastructure, remote work sites, Indigenous communities, wetlands, aviation routes, and a small number of critical highway connections. Regional wildfire context is valuable because incidents may affect transportation, industry, services, and smoke far beyond Fort McMurray itself.
Current official incidents
Active official wildfires in Wood Buffalo
The current direct-official response contains no active incident point inside FireRadar's curated Wood Buffalo extent. This is not a guarantee of local safety and does not replace official emergency information.
Latest completed comparison
What changed around Wood Buffalo
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
Wood Buffalo smoke forecast
Use FireRadar's ECCC FireWork smoke forecast to see modelled smoke movement across and beyond Wood Buffalo. 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 Wood Buffalo regional cluster
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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