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 957 26,236 903,763 548,235 49
BC 482 6,309 196,731 79,946 69
MB 3 445 5,376 361,295 47
NB 0 59 2,267 94
NL 0 2 107,072 82
NS 0 16 310 99
NT 174 1,145 38,512 326,856 71
NU 0 0 43,263 80
ON 3 74 54 371,824 61
PE 0 0 96
QC 0 26 376,741 83
SK 1,184 15,740 561,750 632,860 50
YT 0 6 71
Canada 2,803 50,058 1,708,763 2,848,092 69

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