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Leaf Rapids fire, June 2026 Leaf Rapids

Out · last detection 4 Jul 2026, 08:26 UTC

The fire started on 26 June 2026 in Leaf Rapids, Canada, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,234 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 127th largest in Manitoba since 2016 (of 509 with a page). Number 143 in Canada in 2026, of 548.

Burnt area
7,234ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
26 Jun 2026 – 4 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
26 Jun
2026
Heat detections
428
in a single hotspot: 427 MW
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
14.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

4 Jul 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jun4 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

26272829234

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

28°high
64km/h · peak gust
33%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.8 mm on 5 Jul.

This area had burned before

14% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 441 ha in 2021, 154 ha in 2023, 413 ha in 2025.

What happened to each town

  1. Leaf Rapids where it started
    7,209 ha reached on 26 Jun
    5.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
26 Jun 24.7 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 12
27 Jun 26.8 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
28 Jun 27.9 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 16
29 Jun 22.3 °C 61 % 44 km/h 3.0 mm Very low 3
30 Jun 20.0 °C 57 % 64 km/h 0.8 mm Low 9
1 Jul 21.8 °C 47 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
2 Jul 20.8 °C 37 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
3 Jul 24.2 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
4 Jul 24.6 °C 48 % 43 km/h 5.4 mm Very low 3
5 Jul after 20.0 °C 63 % 38 km/h 11.8 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 19 Jun 2026
After · 11 Jul 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 29 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 132 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 76: 5.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak132 µg/m³
Days over the guideline9 days
PM10135 µg/m³
Optical depth2.18
242526272829301234567
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 428Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Leaf Rapids fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 June 2026 and 4 July 2026: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,234 hectares (72.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Leaf Rapids (7,209 ha, 5.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.9 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Canada (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 911

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.