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Manitoba Wildfires: Live Fire Map

144
Active fires
532K
Acres
128
Under 50% contained
16
Air quality · good province-wide
Current situation

Manitoba

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
61
New fires (48h)
0
Manitoba currently has 144 active wildfires burning a combined 532,457 acres. 61 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the MB-NO028 fire at 47,148 acres.
Air quality is good across all 1 monitoring station in the province right now (typical AQI 16, peak 16).
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Bold outline: Manitoba boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Manitoba

Manitoba does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

Is there a fire near me?

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This season vs the last decade

81% of an average year
Burning right now532K acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)654K acres

Fires currently burning in Manitoba cover 532K acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 654K acres here.

Active fires in Manitoba

Wildfire history in Manitoba

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

1994
Worst year · 3.5M acres
45
Large fires / year · average
1,541
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
2.8M
1.4M
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'23
Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
238K
119K
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June and July account for 74% of the acreage burned in Manitoba in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
741481990: 16 fires19901991: 48 fires1992: 25 fires1993: 17 fires1994: 67 fires1995: 83 fires19951996: 42 fires1997: 25 fires1998: 44 fires1999: 43 fires2000: 34 fires20002001: 43 fires2002: 38 fires2003: 126 fires2004: 21 fires2005: 31 fires20052006: 42 fires2007: 37 fires2008: 33 fires2009: 4 fires2010: 57 fires20102011: 20 fires2012: 65 fires2013: 90 fires2014: 15 fires2015: 44 fires20152016: 21 fires2017: 87 fires2018: 62 fires2019: 26 fires2020: 17 fires20202021: 148 fires2022: 23 fires2023: 47 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Manitoba averaged 808K acres burned and 52 fires per year. That is 21% up in acreage and 18% 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 Manitoba? 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 Manitoba

  • Ea0962021671,387 acres
  • Ea0442021429,041 acres
  • Ea1452021215,737 acres
  • We0322021158,431 acres
  • We0642021139,723 acres

Fires near a city in Manitoba

WinnipegThompson

Nearby provinces

Northwest Territories (198)Quebec (193)Ontario (178)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)Yukon (26)