National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: August 6, 2025

• Data courtesy of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
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Priority fires

Saskatchewan: 25LF-SHOE Lower Fishing Lake – the fire is estimated 565,701 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LA-PISEW West of La Ronge – the fire is estimated 207,090 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25WY-DITCH02 North of Weyakwin – the fire is estimated 192,730 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LX-MUSKEG North of La Plonge Indian Reserve and Beauval – the fire is estimated 343,379 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LX-TRAIL West of Beauval – the fire is estimated 54,147 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25BN-PARK near Clearwater River Provincial Park – the fire is estimated 63,751 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

Manitoba: WE085 near Cormorant – the fire is estimated 4,900 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

WE052 near Snow Lake – the fire is estimated 57,765 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

NO061 – near Thompson/Mystery Lake – the fire is estimated 18,365 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

NO079 – near Kistiganwacheeng (Garden Hill Anisininew Nation) – the fire is estimated 37,855 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

Newfoundland and Labrador: Kingston (Adam’s Cove area) – the fire is estimated 735 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

Holyrood/CBS – the fire is estimated 16 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

Interagency mobilization

Canada is at National Preparedness Level 5, indicating that there is full commitment of national resources and demand for interagency resources through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC) is extreme. Since national availability of resources is limited, international resources are being mobilized.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 5, Newfoundland and Labrador are at level 4, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Parks Canada are at Level 3, and all other agencies at 2 or lower. At APL 5, agencies have extreme Fire Danger, anticipate extreme fire Load in the next week, and do not have adequate resources to manage fires. At the time of this report, there are domestic and international personnel, aircraft, and fire fighting equipment being mobilized through CIFFC and compact agreements.

The United States is at preparedness level 4, indicating shared resources are heavily committed, and national trends affect all geographic areas.

The number of fires is about average for this time of year, but the area burned to date is significantly more than the 10-year average. There were 352 number of 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 Coastal region.

In Alberta, there are widespread fire bans, restrictions and advisories across the northeast, east, southeast and foothills area of the province.

In Saskatchewan, there are fire bans and restrictions the central and northern regions of the province, as well as in the southwest region.

In Manitoba, there are municipal fire restrictions in place around Thompson, east of Flin Flon, and throughout the southern areas of the province. The province remains under a state of emergency.

In New Brunswick there is a restriction on burning from 8am to 8pm daily across most of the province, with the exception of the Madawaska region.

In Nova Scotia a provincewide burn ban is in effect through proclamation under the Forests Act. No open fires allowed. Starting 5 August, travel and activities in woods are restricted to help prevent wildfires. Hiking, camping, fishing and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted, trail systems through woods are off limits and camping is allowed only in campgrounds. The fine for violating the restrictions is $25,000.

In Prince Edward Island, domestic brush burning is permitted only between 8pm and 8 am.

In Newfoundland and Labrador a province-wide fire ban is now in effect in Newfoundland and Labrador. This ban will be in place until at least September 7. Fires are banned within 300 metres or 1,000 feet of a forested area, which includes land containing trees of any size such as forests, yards, parks, paths, or greenbelts. Permits to burn grass, brush or other materials are cancelled.

Yukon requires burning permits from April 1 to September 30, and institutes fire restrictions based on current fire danger ratings in different regions. At the time of this report, normal burning restrictions apply across the territory.

There are no burning restrictions in Northwest Territories, Ontario, Québec.

Prognosis

Troughing over western Canada will bring lower temperatures and precipitation to southern areas of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan this week, while a broad upper ridge will keep conditions hot and largely dry from Ontario to the Atlantic August 6-9. Though the Atlantic remains dry. Northern sections of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will likely see some lighter and isolated showers this week, but no widespread or heavy rainfall is forecast for the areas of greatest fire activity.

A broad upper ridge will remain in place over Atlantic Canada through to mid next week. No precipitation is anticipated. No convective activity and light winds are the only helping factors.

Much of western and northern Canada are entering a cooler, wetter pattern this week as an upper trough pushes inland from the Pacific, bringing rain to coastal areas, southern Yukon and notably western Northwest Territories.

The trough will push inland by midweek, bringing seasonal to below seasonal temperatures to British Columbia and Alberta along with enhanced chances of precipitation. The Yukon and Northwest Territories will see seasonal temperatures and showery weather through the weekend.

This area of enhanced precipitation likelihood will drift eastward into Manitoba and northwestern Ontario by the end of the week. A low-pressure system will develop over southern Manitoba late this week and bring significant rainfall totals to the southeast prairies and northwestern ON.

Northern sections of Ontario and Quebec are likely to see some scattered precipitation, including thundershowers, late this week along the northern edge of the upper ridge.

Weekly graphs (current as of: August 6, 2025)