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Alberta Wildfires: Live Fire Map

17
Active fires
48K
Acres
11
Under 50% contained
19
Typical air quality · worst 62 near Janvier
Current situation

Alberta

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
5
New fires (48h)
0
Evac zones
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active anywhere in the province right now.
Alberta currently has 17 active wildfires burning a combined 47,648 acres. 5 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the HWF-094 fire at 32,618 acres.
Typical air quality across the province's 37 monitoring stations is good (AQI 19); the worst reading right now is AQI 62 (moderate) near Janvier.
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Bold outline: Alberta boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Alberta

No zones are under an evacuation order or warning in Alberta right now. Live zone status from Alberta Emergency Management Agency, refreshed every 5 minutes; if an order or warning is issued it will appear here and shaded on the map above.

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This season vs the last decade

4% of an average year
Burning right now48K acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)1.2M acres

Fires currently burning in Alberta cover 48K acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 1.2M acres here.

Active fires in Alberta

Wildfire history in Alberta

Large fires (200+ hectares) since 1990, Canadian National Fire Database.

2023
Worst year · 5.5M acres
22
Large fires / year · average
742
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
5.5M
2.7M
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Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
596K
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May and June account for 88% of the acreage burned in Alberta in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
36711990: 17 fires19901991: 5 fires1992: 2 fires1993: 15 fires1994: 13 fires1995: 17 fires19951996: 3 fires1997: 4 fires1998: 67 fires1999: 43 fires2000: 13 fires20002001: 20 fires2002: 28 fires2003: 16 fires2004: 33 fires2005: 8 fires20052006: 36 fires2007: 12 fires2008: 9 fires2009: 17 fires2010: 16 fires20102011: 30 fires2012: 36 fires2013: 8 fires2014: 7 fires2015: 64 fires20152016: 11 fires2017: 20 fires2018: 22 fires2019: 26 fires2020: 3 fires20202021: 19 fires2022: 31 fires2023: 71 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Alberta averaged 1.6M acres burned and 30 fires per year. That is 285% up in acreage and 47% up in fire count versus the 1990–2018 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Alberta? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Alberta

  • Basset Fire2023578,377 acres
  • Long Lake Complex2023501,678 acres
  • Pembina Complex2023498,938 acres
  • Kimiwan2023353,457 acres
  • Dl10091995327,856 acres

Fires near a city in Alberta

CalgaryEdmontonFort McMurrayLethbridgeBanff

Nearby provinces

Northwest Territories (198)Quebec (193)Ontario (178)Manitoba (144)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)