Wildfires in New Brunswick
New Brunswick, Canada: 7 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 273 municipalities since 2016, burning 15,177 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gagetown in April 2024, with 5,757 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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
- 15,177ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 73,096 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 9
- of 273
- Largest fire
- 5,757ha
- Gagetown · April 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Low 9° · 49 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 15° · 58 % · 41 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 10° · 52 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 10° · 80 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 17° · 72 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 18° · 56 % · 48 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 10° · 97 % · 41 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Gagetown 3,533 ha · 15 %
- Burton 3,409 ha · 13 %
- Petersville 3,143 ha · 5.3 %
- Newcastle 2,222 ha · 3.8 %
- Hampstead 1,569 ha · 6.9 %
- Waterborough 1,238 ha · 2.4 %
- Alnwick 49 ha · 0.1 %
- Brunswick 13 ha · 0.0 %
- Blissville 1 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Census subdivisions with two or more fires of 1,000 ha or more since 2016.
- 3×Petersville3,143 ha
- 2×Gagetown3,533 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 5,757 haGagetownApril 2024 · 22 days
- 2,271 haNewcastleAugust 2025 · 9 days
- 1,996 haHampsteadApril 2024 · 28 days
- 1,617 haPetersvilleApril 2026 · 2 days
- 1,251 haWaterboroughSeptember 2025 · 4 days
- 1,186 haGagetownMay 2023 · 1 day
- 1,100 haPetersvilleMay 2023 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,617 | Petersville 1,617 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 3,523 | Newcastle 2,271 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 7,753 | Gagetown 5,757 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 2,286 | Gagetown 1,186 ha |
All fires in New Brunswick · 7
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).
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