National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: September 10, 2025

• Data courtesy of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
• Check the Air Quality Health Index for air quality in your area.

Priority fires

Northwest Territories:

SS014-25 is located around Fort Providence is estimated 114,280 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

Interagency mobilization

Canada is at National Preparedness Level 3, indicating mobilization is required and demand for resources is moderate to support active agencies. National availability of resources is limited, but there is some availability.

There are no wildfire management agencies at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 5, however British Columbia is at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 4, Manitoba and Nova Scotia are at level 3, and all other agencies at 2 or lower. At the time of this report, there are domestic and international personnel, aircraft, and fire fighting equipment being mobilized through CIFFC. International personnel is set to demobilize over the next week.

The United States is at preparedness level 4, indicating resources are heavily committed and significant activity is occurring in multiple geographic areas.

The number of fires is average for this time of year, but the area burned to date is significantly more than the 10-year average. There were 78 fires started by lightning over the last week.

Weekly Synopsis

In British Columbia, there are Category 2 and 3 Open Fire restrictions across all regions, and campfire bans in the Cariboo, Kamloops, and Prince George fire regions.

In Alberta, there are fire restrictions, in Wood Buffalo National Park, in the northwest region around Grande Prairie, east of Edmonton, the foothills, and east and around Calgary. There are widespread fire advisories across the remaining regions of the province.

In Saskatchewan, there are fire bans and restrictions in the northwest and southwest regions of the province.

In Manitoba, there are municipal fire restrictions in place around Thompson, east and south of Flin Flon, and throughout the southern areas of the province.

In New Brunswick the there are burn restrictions between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily in the Albert, Carleton, Gloucester, Kent, Kings, Northumberland, Queens, Restigouche, Sunbury, Victoria, Westmorland, and York regions.

In Nova Scotia a provincewide burn ban remains in effect. No open fires allowed.

In Prince Edward Island has issued a fire closure order that bans all fires including campfires, until further notice.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, a province-wide fire ban remains in effect. This ban will be in place until at least September 12, when a determination will be made about its status.

There are no burning restrictions in Northwest Territories, Ontario, Québec. In Yukon there are no restrictions in place, however normal burning restrictions apply across the territory.

Prognosis

High pressure areas dominate Canadian weather over the next few days. Weak troughs crossing southern parts of the country will allow for spotty convective shower or thundershower development, with a greater likelihood in the southern Prairies. Stronger low pressure centres crossing Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut will provide more moisture to northern continental regions. Smoke will continue affecting temperature and air quality. Most of Atlantic Canada remains dry although showers will affect Newfoundland on Friday, September 12.

Very warm air for mid-September covers the northern Prairies for the remainder of the week of September 7-13, with daytime maximums over 25C, about 10 degrees above normal.

A low pressure area pushes through Yukon Thursday. South to southeast winds will strengthen in the Northwest Territories ahead of this low, increasing chances of rapid fire spread. As the low moves across the Northwest Territories, showers will be most prevalent near the Arctic coast although some development will occur in southern and central regions over the September 13-14 weekend. Shower activity increases after the weekend as a new low moves across the region.

Regions west of central Saskatchewan still have high Duff Moisture Code values and thus are susceptible to lightning strikes. Although values are high in the Maritime Provinces, lightning will be absent over the next few days.

The train of storm centres from the Territories continue crossing Hudson Bay, but precipitation from these systems will generally be confined to northern Quebec and Labrador before a moister pattern appears to develop in Manitoba and Ontario by Tuesday, September 16.

The Atlantic provinces remain mostly dry over the next few days, although moisture moving up the Atlantic coast brushes Nova Scotia and brings more widespread rainfall to Newfoundland on Friday, September 12. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island appear be left out of this rainfall event.

Weekly graphs (current as of: September 10, 2025)