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Wildfires in Big Lakes County

Big Lakes County, Canada, has had 8 large fires mapped since 2023: 179,934 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 4° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low -2° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low -1° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 5° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 9° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 8° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 6° · 59 % · 64 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The census subdivision and its fires

Since 2016

179,934
hectares burned
12 %
of the subdivision
8
fires
15,020
km²

How many times has Big Lakes County burned?

Big Lakes County has burned 8 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Northern Sunrise County fire, 8 June 2025, with 42 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
2
years with fire
179,934
cumulative ha
8 Jun 2025
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Canada →

Fires that entered Big Lakes County

  1. 42 ha Northern Sunrise County fire, 8 June 2025 0.0% of the subdivision · 1,641 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,197 ha Big Lakes County fire, 29 May 2025 where it started 0.1% of the subdivision · 1,211 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 449 ha Northern Sunrise County fire, 27 May 2025 0.0% of the subdivision · 7,317 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,888 ha Big Lakes County fire, 25 May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the subdivision · 2,925 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,477 ha Big Lakes County fire, June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the subdivision · 6,823 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 34,102 ha Big Lakes County fire, 5 May 2023 where it started 2.3% of the subdivision · 113,088 ha in total · 159 days
  7. 13,485 ha Big Lakes County fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the subdivision · 13,556 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 122,293 ha Big Lakes County fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 8.1% of the subdivision · 127,189 ha in total · 131 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from the NBAC of Canada’s CWFIS (Natural Resources Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada); for the current season they are rebuilt from heat detections by GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) until NBAC publishes the year. Census subdivision boundaries come from geoBoundaries/Statistics Canada (StatCan) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per census subdivision is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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