National Wildland Fire Situation Report

National Wildland Fire Situation Report

Archived reports

Current as of: July 30, 2025

• Data courtesy of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
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Priority fires

Saskatchewan: 25LF-SHOE Lower Fishing Lake – the fire is estimated 554,667 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LA-PISEW West of La Ronge – the fire is estimated 207,090 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25WY-DITCH02 North of Weyakwin – the fire is estimated 192,730 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LX-MUSKEG North of La Plonge Indian Reserve and Beauval – the fire is estimated 288,192 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25LX-TRAIL West of Beauval – the fire is estimated 76,297 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

25BN-PARK near Clearwater River Provincial Park – the fire is estimated 26,838 hectares in size and is currently listed as not contained.

Manitoba: WE052 near Snow Lake – the fire is estimated 28,115 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

WE053 near Snow Lake – the fire is estimated 7,990 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

NO026 – near Leaf Rapids – the fire is estimated 73,539 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

NO061 – near Thompson/Mystery Lake – the fire is estimated 18,365 hectares in size and is currently listed as out of control.

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 Saskatchewan are at Agency Preparedness Level (APL) 5, Alberta is at level 4, Ontario, and Parks Canada are at Level 3, and all other agencies at 2 or lower or not reporting APL today. 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 and compact agreements.

The United States is at preparedness level 3, indicating significant wildland fire activity is occurring in multiple geographic areas, mobilization of resources is moderate to heavy, and there is potential for significant wildland fires.

The number of fires is below 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 Category 2 and 3 Open Fire restrictions across all regions, and campfire bans in the Coastal region.

In Alberta, there are widespread fire bans, restrictions and advisories across the northeast, east, southeast and foothills area of the province.

In Saskatchewan, there are fire bans and restrictions across the northeast, northwest, eastern and southwest areas of the province.

In Manitoba, there are municipal fire restrictions in place around Thompson, east of Flin Flon, in the west, and throughout the southern areas of the province. The province remains under a state of emergency.

In New Brunswick there is a restriction on burning from 8am to 8pm daily across Glouster, Carleton, York, Sunbury, Queens, Kings, and Charlotte, regions of the province.

In Nova Scotia there is a restriction across the entire province.

In Prince Edward Island, domestic brush burning is permitted only between 8pm and 8 am.

In Newfoundland and Labrador the province-wide outdoor fire ban has been lifted.

Yukon requires burning permits from April 1 to September 30, and institutes fire restrictions based on current fire danger ratings in different regions. At the time of this report, normal burning restrictions apply across the territory. Permission is required to burn organic materials and all municipal burning rules must be followed.

There are no burning restrictions in Northwest Territories, Ontario, Québec.

Prognosis

A Pacific low pressure system off the north coast of British Columbia continues to bring rain to the north coast, and to push moisture into Yukon, NWT and northern Alberta

A broad, moderately strong ridge is in place over Alberta today, but ample moisture will allow for development of rain showers and thundershowers under northern sections of the ridge in northeast British Columbia, the Yukon, western NWT and northern Alberta

The same ridge is keeping conditions warm and largely dry through Saskatchewan and Manitoba

A broad, stagnant low over Hudson’s Bay will keep temperatures closer to seasonal normal over Manitoba and Ontario

The coastal low, prairie ridge and Hudson’s Bay low will drift slowly to the east through the week and weekend: Northern British Columbia, the Yukon and western Alberta will see more coverage from rain showers along with a continued risk of thundershowers

Saskatchewan and Manitoba will start to see higher chances of rain showers and thundershowers by late in the weekend as the ridge drifts east

Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces will remain under the influence of the Hudson’s Bay low, bringing weather best described as variable: No persistent cool/wet or warm/dry weather is expected, rather short-lived and localized storms will alternate with periods of sunny and drier weather.

Models indicate a very low chance of widespread rain or showers over the next 5 days except in northwest British Columbia, the Yukon and the northern half of Quebec.

Summary: A broad upper ridge is bringing hot and dry weather to the prairie provinces and will drift into Manitoba by the end of the weekend. Chances of showers and thundershowers increase behind this ridge and lightning is likely in Alberta and northern Saskatchewan by late in the weekend.

Weekly graphs (current as of: July 30, 2025)