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Wildfires in Torch River No. 488

Torch River No. 488, Canada, has had 6 large fires mapped since 2017: 106,796 hectares burned inside the census subdivision, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 9° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 6° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 4° · 77 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 8° · 44 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 56 % · 39 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 53 % · 56 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

106,796
hectares burned
20 %
of the subdivision
6
fires
5,259
km²

How many times has Torch River No. 488 burned?

Torch River No. 488 has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Torch River No. 488 fire, May 2025, with 57,218 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 106,796 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 101,944 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
106,796
cumulative ha
101,944
distinct ha

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 Torch River No. 488

  1. 57,218 ha Torch River No. 488 fire, May 2025 where it started 11% of the subdivision · 342,369 ha in total · 31 days
  2. 848 ha Division No. 18, Unorganized fire, 16 July 2021 0.2% of the subdivision · 4,800 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 7,230 ha Division No. 18, Unorganized fire, 9 July 2021 1.4% of the subdivision · 25,279 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 1,232 ha Torch River No. 488 fire, May 2021 where it started 0.2% of the subdivision · 1,241 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 38,517 ha Torch River No. 488 fire, May 2020 where it started 7.3% of the subdivision · 40,931 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 1,750 ha Torch River No. 488 fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the subdivision · 1,743 ha in total · 13 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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