Forecast smoke · ECCC FireWork
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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 official data
Current wildfires in Wood Buffalo
Latest source update unavailable
Active official fires
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Alberta wildfire records within the FireRadar region.
Out of control
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Current active records whose official status is out/not under control.
Reported active hectares
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No active regional record currently reports a usable size.
Largest reported active fire
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0 recent out records are inside the regional extent.
This region uses an approximate FireRadar boundary and wildfire locations published by the source. It is not an emergency boundary, predicted spread area or municipal boundary.
Smoke forecast for Wood Buffalo
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada FireWork
Checking the latest official ECCC FireWork forecast status. Model issuance, forecast coverage and source status will appear when confirmed. Missing forecast data does not mean the air is clear.
Coverage: This is a regional forecast, not a local measurement. Smoke conditions can vary across Wood Buffalo.
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Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada FireWork.
AQHI observation
Latest AQHI near Wood Buffalo
Checking the latest official ECCC AQHI observation. The value, reporting location and observation time will appear when confirmed. Missing data does not mean the air is clean or the health risk is low.
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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
No active wildfires are currently shown in this region. This does not guarantee local safety or replace official emergency information.
Latest completed comparison
What changed around Wood Buffalo
Examples from the completed 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-02 comparison. See the provincial report for the full list.
No changes are shown here. See the provincial report for the complete list.
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.
Alberta air quality map →Local wildfire maps
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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