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Wildfires in Northern Lights County

Northern Lights County, Canada, has had 9 large fires mapped since 2018: 132,384 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Thu 5 Low 8° · 47 % · 62 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 6° · 62 % · 57 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 5° · 48 % · 49 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 8° · 61 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 4° · 61 % · 47 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 1° · 66 % · 48 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 4° · 85 % · 40 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Northern Lights County: hourly forecast

The census subdivision and its fires

Since 2016

132,384
hectares burned
6.3 %
of the subdivision
9
fires
21,128
km²

How many times has Northern Lights County burned?

Northern Lights County has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Northern Lights County fire, June 2025, with 20,201 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
132,384
cumulative ha
3 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 Northern Lights County

  1. 20,201 ha Northern Lights County fire, June 2025 where it started 1.0% of the subdivision · 19,573 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,954 ha Northern Lights County fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the subdivision · 2,912 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 4,658 ha Northern Lights County fire, June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the subdivision · 4,597 ha in total · 155 days
  4. 939 ha Mackenzie County fire, 4 June 2023 0.0% of the subdivision · 188,082 ha in total · 173 days
  5. 0 ha Northern Rockies fire, 28 May 2023 0.0% of the subdivision · 328,203 ha in total · 180 days
  6. 65,296 ha Mackenzie County fire, 12 May 2019 3.1% of the subdivision · 335,032 ha in total · 125 days
  7. 34,751 ha Northern Lights County fire, May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the subdivision · 36,519 ha in total · 40 days
  8. 2,542 ha Northern Lights County fire, 28 May 2018 where it started 0.1% of the subdivision · 2,561 ha in total · 43 days
  9. 1,042 ha Northern Lights County fire, 22 May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the subdivision · 1,035 ha in total · 2 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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