National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: June 25, 2025

• Data courtesy of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
• Check the Air Quality Health Index for air quality in your area.

Priority fires

Bird River Fire, Manitoba EA061 This wildfire is located near Bissett and Bird River. It is approximately 226,150 and remains not-under-control. As of June 24, a closure continues for parts of Nopiming Provincial Park.

The Red Earth East Complex, Alberta SCX0001 This wildfire is made up of numerous wildfires and is centered in the northeastern portion of the Slave Lake Forest Area. SWF092 near Red Earth Creek and Loon Lake First Nation is classified as out-of-control and is currently 77,988 ha. SWF100 on the west side of Peerless Lake, is classified as out-of-control and is currently 17,310 ha.

Interagency mobilization

Canada is at National Preparedness Level 5, indicating that there is full commitment of national resources and demand for interagency resources through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC) is extreme. Since national availability of resources is limited, international resources are being mobilized.

Manitoba and Yukon are at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 5, Saskatchewan and Alberta are at level 4, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Ontario are at level 3, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island are at level 2, and Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Parks Canada are at level 1. At APL 5, agencies have extreme Fire Danger, anticipate extreme fire Load in the next week, and do not have adequate resources to manage fires. At the time of this report, there are domestic and international personnel, aircraft, and fire fighting equipment being mobilized through CIFFC.

The United States is at preparedness level 3, indicating that significant wildland fire activity is occurring in multiple geographic areas, and there is moderate to heavy mobilization of resources through the National Interagency Coordination Center to sustain incident management operations in active Geographic Areas.

The number of fires is average for this time of year, but the area burned to date is significantly more than the 10-year average.

Weekly Synopsis

In British Columbia, there are Open Fire restrictions in Cariboo, Coastal, Kamloops, Southeast, Prince George and parts of Northwest.

In Alberta, there are fire bans and restrictions across the province, but they are concentrated in the east-central to southern regions.

On May 29, Saskatchewan declared a 30-day Provincial State of Emergency. Since June 16, several provincial fire bans have been rescinded, but there are still fire bans and restrictions in the Green Lake, Candle Lake, Prince Albert, Golden Prairie, Consul, Val Marie, and Limerick regions. There are also bans and restrictions south of Young and east of Ituna.

In Manitoba, Provincial burning permits have been cancelled for areas 1 to 5 and areas 8 to 22, and Campfires are only permitted between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.

There are currently no Restricted Fire Zones (RFZ) in Ontario.

In the Northwest Territories campfires are not permitted at the Hay River and Fort Simpson Territorial Parks.

Nova Scotia does not permit burning in Annapolis, Kings and Lunenburg, but permits burning between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. in all other counties.

From June 25 to June 26, New Brunswick allows open burning in Gloucester. Burning is permitted between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. in other counties.

In Prince Edward Island, no burning is permitted in Prince and Queens. In Kings, burning is only permitted between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.

Park Canada has fire bans in effect in Prince Albert, Grasslands National Park, and Wood Buffalo National Parks.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, the province-wide outdoor fire ban that prohibited the setting of fires on forest land or within 300 metres of forest land has been lifted. The province requires burning permits, but will suspend permits when fire hazard is high, very high or extreme for a region.

In Yukon, there are level 3 Fires restrictions are in effect across most of the territory. Cooking and warming fires are only allowed in fire pits or other purpose-made containers. All other fire use is suspended. Yukon requires burning permits from April 1 to September 30, and institutes fire restrictions based on current fire danger ratings in different regions.

There are no burning restrictions in Québec.

Prognosis

A broad upper trough with embedded short waves is over western Canada and will cause scattered showers or thundershowers in the western half of the country over the next three or four days. Some of this activity will occur in areas where forests are susceptible to lightning starts, from Yukon and the Northwest Territories to western Ontario.

High pressure slowly drifts across eastern Canada and will cause drying and warming for the next few days. As a result, fire weather indexes are expected to rise across northern Ontario, east of James Bay, Quebec’s most fire-prone region, and most of Atlantic Canada.

As the high-pressure area slowly moves eastward, wind could drive fire growth in Manitoba and western Ontario where drying is occurring.

Moisture from the central USA will contribute to an increased chance of showers and thundershowers across the Great Lakes and southern Quebec. Most of this moisture appears to be diverted south of the Atlantic Provinces until the middle of the week of June 29.

Late in the weekend of June 28-29, a ridge appears to build over western Canada, returning warm and dry weather to British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. Impacts will likely be felt in the eastern Prairies a day or two later.

Smoke may affect air quality where fires are most active. Currently this includes Yukon, the juncture of British Columbia, Alberta, and Northwest Territories, and central Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Other regions could be affected with renewed fire activity.

Weekly graphs (current as of: June 25, 2025)