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Wildfires in Canada

3,170 fires over 1,000 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 38,797,606 hectares burned across 417 municipalities.

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Canada, at this point in the year: 2,631,270 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 4,040,514.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,481,852 ha

Worst year2023 14,903,846 ha

With a page here3,170 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	3,530	2,639,587	GWIS
2025	5,838	7,366,132	GWIS
2024	4,608	5,154,729	GWIS
2023	11,204	14,903,846	GWIS
2022	2,920	1,739,592	GWIS
2021	5,495	4,469,059	GWIS
2020	2,550	612,386	GWIS
2019	2,959	2,100,294	GWIS
2018	4,359	2,874,870	GWIS
2017	5,753	4,044,314	GWIS
2016	3,591	1,553,295	GWIS
2015	5,866	4,087,157	GWIS
2014	5,931	4,377,931	GWIS
2013	5,561	3,887,835	GWIS
2012	3,783	2,153,959	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	5k	2k		2k	69k	1,577k	1,727k	298k	1k	1k		3,682,151	Thompson-Nicola E (Bonaparte * 173,913 ha
2025				3k	1,766k	1,003k	2,125k	835k	113k	1k	2k	5,849,926	Torch River No. 488 342,369 ha
2024				99k	200k	957k	2,577k	297k	5k	2k		4,135,843	Region 4, Unorganized 241,660 ha
2023				125k	4,927k	4,434k	3,090k	225k	38k			12,839,972	Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 976,263 ha
2022					4k	602k	521k	165k	14k	3k		1,308,873	Region 4, Unorganized 64,995 ha
2021			5k	202k	624k	691k	1,889k	77k	1k	1k		3,490,556	Division No. 19, Unorganized 387,616 ha
2020				1k	76k	81k	14k	17k	2k			190,596	Passes-Dangereuses 51,460 ha
2019				9k	892k	398k	272k	8k				1,579,750	Mackenzie County 335,032 ha
2018				18k	188k	289k	687k	560k				1,741,735	Stikine Region 105,479 ha
2017					26k	471k	1,798k	581k	20k	2k		2,897,816	Cariboo K 410,352 ha
2016				29k	555k	317k	173k	3k		4k		1,080,387	Wood Buffalo 477,421 ha