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Wildfires in Yukon

Yukon, Canada: 231 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 36 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,473,074 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yukon, Unorganized in 23 May 2019, with 104,314 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
1,473,074ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.2%
462,023 km²
fires
231
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 36
Largest fire
104,314ha
Yukon, Unorganized · 23 May 2019
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 -12° · 84 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low -12° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low -7° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low -10° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low -6° · 83 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low -8° · 90 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low -9° · 75 % · 34 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. Yukon, Unorganized 1,471,857 ha · 3.2 %
  2. Whitehorse, Unorganized 1,050 ha · 0.2 %
  3. Ibex Valley 166 ha · 0.8 %

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
202625,398 Yukon, Unorganized 3,915 ha
20251430,257 Yukon, Unorganized 5,580 ha
202424156,920 Yukon, Unorganized 38,694 ha
202343317,090 Yukon, Unorganized 65,961 ha
202250147,956 Yukon, Unorganized 21,071 ha
202120124,123 Yukon, Unorganized 28,964 ha
2020316,670 Yukon, Unorganized 7,571 ha
201927252,328 Yukon, Unorganized 104,314 ha
20181469,021 Yukon, Unorganized 19,477 ha
201731336,056 Yukon, Unorganized 76,431 ha
2016317,255 Yukon, Unorganized 11,294 ha

All fires in Yukon · 231

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).