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Wildfires in Fort Simpson

Fort Simpson, Canada, has had one large fire mapped since 2026: 4,791 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 54% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Fri 23 Very low 1° · 63 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 1° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 4° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 1° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 1° · 75 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 0° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 1° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 1° · 62 % · 30 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

4,791
hectares burned
54 %
of the subdivision
1
fires
89
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Fort Simpson

  1. 4,791 ha Region 4, Unorganized fire, 27 June 2026 54% of the subdivision · 49,915 ha in total · 15 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).