Fire M3 Hotspots

Most recent
Daily Hotspot Report
Agency Daily Hotspots Year-to-date Hotspots Year-to-date Burned Area (ha) Smoke (km2) Cloud (%)
AB 1,147 9,170 415,971 249,678 47
BC 214 724 24,176 8,378 42
MB 10 320 3,644 5,094 50
NB 0 56 2,241 61
NL 0 2 68
NS 0 12 310 76
NT 26 48 1,684 8,953 72
NU 0 0 67
ON 0 58 54 60
PE 0 0 81
QC 0 24 73
SK 815 2,590 87,793 337,312 29
YT 0 0 78
Canada 2,212 13,004 535,873 609,415 58

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://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/)
  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