Wildfires in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia, Canada: 4 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 96 municipalities since 2016, burning 32,174 hectares inside the region. The largest was Barrington in May 2023, with 20,288 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 32,174ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 55,227 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 96
- Largest fire
- 20,288ha
- Barrington · May 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Very low 17° · 45 % · 40 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 10° · 47 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 7° · 41 % · 33 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 14° · 54 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 13° · 91 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 9° · 50 % · 48 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 7° · 45 % · 50 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 13° · 46 % · 46 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Shelburne 10,964 ha · 5.6 %
- Barrington 9,324 ha · 14 %
- Annapolis, Subd. D 8,100 ha · 3.8 %
- Argyle 2,696 ha · 1.6 %
- Kings, Subd. A 1,091 ha · 0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Census subdivisions with two or more fires of 1,000 ha or more since 2016.
- 2×Argyle2,696 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 20,288 haBarringtonMay 2023 · 7 days
- 8,100 haAnnapolis, Subd. DAugust 2025 · 17 days
- 2,696 haArgyleMay 2022 · 4 days
- 1,091 haKings, Subd. ASeptember 2025 · 9 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 9,191 | Annapolis, Subd. D 8,100 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 20,288 | Barrington 20,288 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 2,696 | Argyle 2,696 ha |
All fires in Nova Scotia · 4
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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