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 20 26,412 906,423 166,667 74
BC 57 6,539 203,789 262 44
MB 47 530 6,277 306,791 73
NB 0 59 2,267 3,894 88
NL 0 2 1,640 46
NS 0 16 310 26,171 98
NT 167 1,989 63,853 114,684 63
NU 0 0 50,193 80
ON 24 109 994 259,303 18
PE 0 0 4,308 76
QC 1 29 2,070 72
SK 72 17,912 624,277 125,777 92
YT 2 9 60
Canada 390 53,606 1,808,190 1,061,760 59

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