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Wildfires in Quebec

Quebec, Canada: 255 fires with a page have entered 29 of its 1285 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,284,152 hectares inside the region. The largest was Eeyou Istchee Baie-James in May 2023, with 1,006,988 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
5,284,152ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.5%
1,496,200 km²
fires
255
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
29
of 1,285
Largest fire
1,006,988ha
Eeyou Istchee Baie-James · May 2023
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 4° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 7° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 6° · 92 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 1° · 55 % · 66 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low -2° · 56 % · 59 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low -1° · 72 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 2° · 84 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low -0° · 80 % · 46 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

  1. Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 4,212,220 ha · 12 %
  2. Senneterre 268,357 ha · 16 %
  3. Rivière-Koksoak 210,702 ha · 0.6 %
  4. Rivière-Mistassini 111,352 ha · 5.9 %
  5. Rivière-Mouchalagane 87,040 ha · 2.5 %
  6. Mont-Valin 60,318 ha · 1.6 %
  7. Rivière-Nipissis 56,592 ha · 5.4 %
  8. Baie-d'Hudson 43,718 ha · 0.3 %
  9. Lac-Jérôme 40,666 ha · 0.9 %
  10. Passes-Dangereuses 34,564 ha · 2.1 %
  11. La Tuque 33,906 ha · 1.2 %
  12. Lac-au-Brochet 31,939 ha · 3.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202684535,033 Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 58,167 ha
202429192,595 Lac-Jérôme 29,383 ha
2023864,295,703 Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 1,006,988 ha
2022524,897 Rivière-Koksoak 12,590 ha
2021543,029 Baie-d'Hudson 23,682 ha
2020455,931 Passes-Dangereuses 50,515 ha
201925,951 Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 4,736 ha
20182181,572 Lac-au-Brochet 12,269 ha
2017726,688 Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 13,909 ha
20161222,754 Eeyou Istchee Baie-James 5,230 ha

All fires in Quebec · 255

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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