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Wildfires in Alberta

Alberta, Canada: 254 fires with a page have entered 37 of its 425 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,494,562 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wood Buffalo in May 2016, with 462,244 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned: 4,494,562ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 6.7%; 673,723 km²
fires: 254; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 37; of 425
Largest fire: 462,244ha; Wood Buffalo · May 2016
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very low 4° · 68 % · 55 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 1° · 55 % · 46 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 0° · 53 % · 28 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 3° · 60 % · 30 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 4° · 63 % · 31 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 1° · 73 % · 50 km/h
Thu 29 Very low -2° · 78 % · 31 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Wood Buffalo 1,194,372 ha · 18 %
Mackenzie County 1,168,283 ha · 14 %
Improvement District No. 24 W* 627,739 ha · 17 %
Opportunity No. 17 380,282 ha · 13 %
Yellowhead County 206,615 ha · 9.2 %
Big Lakes County 179,934 ha · 12 %
Northern Sunrise County 178,335 ha · 8.3 %
Greenview No. 16 136,361 ha · 4.1 %
Northern Lights County 132,384 ha · 6.3 %
Clear Hills 68,573 ha · 4.5 %
Lesser Slave River No.124 47,674 ha · 4.4 %
Saddle Hills County 32,406 ha · 5.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Census subdivisions with two or more fires of 1,000 ha or more since 2016.

58×Wood Buffalo1,194,372 ha
54×Mackenzie County1,168,283 ha
36×Opportunity No. 17380,282 ha
35×Improvement District No. 24 W*627,739 ha
20×Northern Sunrise County178,335 ha
11×Greenview No. 16136,361 ha
10×Improvement District No. 34918,886 ha
9×Northern Lights County132,384 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	8	28,261	Mackenzie County 16,921 ha
2025	63	348,057	Northern Sunrise County 55,141 ha
2024	47	754,614	Mackenzie County 178,293 ha
2023	60	1,747,358	Yellowhead County 195,442 ha
2022	19	126,917	Wood Buffalo 46,634 ha
2021	9	50,480	Wood Buffalo 27,167 ha
2020	1	1,878	Bighorn No. 8 1,878 ha
2019	14	818,917	Mackenzie County 332,763 ha
2018	16	50,429	Opportunity No. 17 7,144 ha
2017	12	77,183	Improvement District No. 24 W* 24,007 ha
2016	5	490,467	Wood Buffalo 462,244 ha

All fires in Alberta · 254

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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 Government Canada 2.0). The area per census subdivision is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).