Fire M3 Hotspots

Daily Hotspot Report
Agency Daily Hotspots Year-to-date Hotspots Year-to-date Burned Area (ha) Smoke (km2) Cloud (%)
AB 23 16,147 425,025 54
BC 16 24,612 477,820 44
MB 463 41,851 1,231,946 421,995 58
NB 0 89 4,292 70
NL 0 58 1,676 44,760 52
NS 0 9 30
NT 23 11,799 254,338 82
NU 0 4 122,895 74
ON 56 12,295 399,460 763,952 60
PE 0 4 13
QC 0 130 3,381 576,897 56
SK 590 55,660 1,493,042 33,208 38
YT 20 5,047 127,253 70
Canada 1,191 167,705 4,418,233 1,963,707 56

These burned area totals are estimates derived from satellite detected hotspots. For current statistics as reported by each agency, go to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) situation report.

A hotspot is a satellite image pixel with high infrared intensity, indicating a heat source. Hotspots from known industrial sources are removed; the remaining hotspots represent vegetation fires, which can be in forest, grass, cropland, or logging debris. A hotspot may represent one fire or be one of several hotspots representing a larger fire. Not all fires can be identified from satellite imagery, either because the fires are too small or because cloud cover obscures the satellite's view of the ground.

The Fire M3 hotspots are obtained from multiple sources:

  1. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery, courtesy of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS).
  2. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) imagery, courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), and from the Active Fire Mapping Program, Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC), USDA Forest Service. (https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/)
  3. Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imagery, courtesy of NASA LANCE FIRMS, University of Maryland and RSAC.

Smoke and cloud data courtesy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) -- http://www.ospo.noaa.gov