National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: September 29, 2023

Current active fires
Uncontrolled Being Held Controlled Modified Response
488 204 208 118
2023
(to date)		 10-yr avg
(to date)		 % normal Prescribed U.S.
Number 6,496 5,380 121 17 43,830
Area
(ha)		 17,874,112 2,726,465 656 0 2,386,207

Priority fires

This page will not be updated for the remainder of the fire season, a fire season summary update will be provided in fall 2023.

Weekly national situation reports will resume Spring 2024.

British Columbia: • Coastal Fire Centre: Kookipi Creek (V11337) • Prince George Fire Centre: Great Beaver Lake (G51279), North Lucas Lake (G41502), Big Creek (G60666), Hell Raving Creek (C52978)

Interagency mobilization

This will be the final national situation report for 2023.

Canada is at national preparedness level 3, indicating increased mobilization of resources through CIFFC is required to assist operations in the active agencies. British Columbia and Northwest Territories are at Preparedness Level 3. All other agencies are at Preparedness Level 1 or 2 or not reporting.

The number of fires is well above average for this time of year, and well above the average for area burned for this time of year.

At the time of this report personnel, and equipment have been mobilized to British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Parks Canada from across Canada and internationally. There are Mexican and American personnel active in Canada. The United States is at preparedness level 2, which indicates mobilization of resources nationally is required to sustain incident management operations in the active Geographic Areas.

Weekly Synopsis

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has extended their Territorial State of Emergency until October 2, 2023.

There are no other wildfire-related provincial or territorial states of emergency across Canada at this time.

Active fires represented by satellite hotspots persist in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

Prognosis

This page will not be updated for the remainder of the fire season, a fire season summary update will be provided in fall 2023.

Weekly national situation reports will resume Spring 2024.

Weekly graphs (current as of: September 29, 2023)

Note: For provinces, PC = Parks Canada

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