National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: July 2, 2025

• Data courtesy of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
• Check the Air Quality Health Index for air quality in your area.

Priority fires

Bird River Fire, Manitoba EA061 This wildfire is located near Bissett and Bird River. It is approximately 226,150 hectares in size and remains out-of-control. As of July 2, a closure and closure and mandatory evacuation order continues for parts of Nopiming, Wallace Lake, and South Atikaki Provincial Parks.

The Red Earth East Complex, Alberta SCX0001 This wildfire is made up of numerous wildfires and is centered in the northeastern portion of the Slave Lake Forest Area. SWF092 near Red Earth Creek and Loon Lake First Nation is classified as out-of-control and is currently 79,946 ha. SWF100 on the west side of Peerless Lake, is classified as out-of-control and is currently 18,289 ha.

Red Lake 12, Ontario RED012 This wildfire is located near the community of Deer Lake, is 195,670 hectares in size, and currently out-of-control. Members of the Sandy Lake First Nation continue to be under an evacuation order.

Interagency mobilization

Canada is at National Preparedness Level 5, indicating that there is full commitment of national resources and demand for interagency resources through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC) is extreme. Since national availability of resources is limited, international resources are being mobilized.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 5, Yukon and Alberta are at level 4, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Ontario are at level 3, Newfoundland and Labrador and Parks Canada are at level 2, and Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are at level 1. At APL 5, agencies have extreme Fire Danger, anticipate extreme fire Load in the next week, and do not have adequate resources to manage fires. At the time of this report, there are domestic and international personnel, aircraft, and fire fighting equipment being mobilized through CIFFC.

The United States is at preparedness level 3, indicating that significant wildland fire activity is occurring in multiple geographic areas, and there is moderate to heavy mobilization of resources through the National Interagency Coordination Center to sustain incident management operations in active Geographic Areas.

The number of fires is average for this time of year, but the area burned to date is significantly more than the 10-year average.

Weekly Synopsis

In British Columbia, there are Open Fire restrictions in Cariboo, Coastal, Kamloops, Southeast, Prince George, and Northwest.

In Alberta, there are fire bans and restrictions across the province, but they are concentrated in the east-central to southern regions.

Saskatchewan's Provincial State of Emergency expired on June 27th. There are fire bans and restrictions in the Candle Lake, Hazlet, Golden Prairie, Consul, Val Marie, and Limerick regions. There are also bans and restrictions west of Raymore.

In Manitoba, there are burning restrictions in the southern regions, Town of Snowlake, RM of Kelseay and around LGD Mystery Lake.

There are currently no Restricted Fire Zones (RFZ) in Ontario.

In the Northwest Territories campfires are not permitted at the Hay River Territorial Park, Fort Simpson Territorial Park, Fred Henne Territorial Park, and Yellowknife River Territorial Park Day Use Area.

Nova Scotia permits burning between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. in Annapolis, Antigonish, Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, Hants, Inverness, Kings, and Pictou. Burning is allowed between 2:00 pm and 8:00 am in all other counties.

From 2:00 p.m. July 2 to 2:00 p.m. July 3, all New Brunswick counties are open for burning.

In Prince Edward Island, burning is permitted in all counties only between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.

Park Canada has fire bans in effect in Grasslands National Park, and Wood Buffalo National Park.

Newfoundland and Labrador requires burning permits but will suspend permits when fire hazard is high, very high or extreme for a region.

Yukon requires burning permits from April 1 to September 30, and institutes fire restrictions based on current fire danger ratings in different regions. At the time of this report, normal burning restrictions apply across the territory. Permission is required to burn organic materials and all municipal burning rules must be followed.

There are no burning restrictions in Québec.

Prognosis

A slow-moving upper ridge is making its way across western Canada, bringing warm, dry conditions from eastern BC to western Ontario throughout the first half of the week. Temperatures will sit in the upper 20s to mid-30s in the prairies, and crossover conditions are possible over southern AB, and SK as well as small portions of northern AB and southern NWT. Light winds give low to moderate Initial Spead Indices throughout the week, though many areas have a high Build Up Index.

There will be significant convection over AB and SK on July 2 and July 3. High flash rates and strong winds are anticipated. There is also the potential for dry lightning over southern AB on July 3 with very dry air and a high likelihood for thunderstorm development.

On July 3, an area of precipitation will develop over northern BC and southern YT. This system will move across the northern prairies provinces bringing ~25mm of precipitation with locally higher amounts in convection. This system is likely to have significant thunderstorm activity which will take place over dry ground (with high Duff Moisture Code), with northern AB having the highest likelihood of lightning caused ignitions.

Strong winds on the prairies (> 25km/h, 40 km/h with gusts up to 60 km/h)) to occur throughout SK on July 4. Winds will die down in the evening. Winds will be from the west or northwest. Extreme northern SK will have lighter easterly winds.

MB and northern ON will receive only small amounts of precipitation throughout the week. Warm and dry conditions will continue to dry fuels once again raising Fire Weather indices by the end of the week (July 4).

Smoke may affect air quality where fires are most active. Currently this includes Yukon, the juncture of the British Columbia, Alberta, and Northwest Territories border, and central Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Other regions could be affected over the next few days with renewed activity.

Weekly graphs (current as of: July 2, 2025)