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Fires Near Fort McMurray, AB

Live wildfire tracking around Fort McMurray: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official Canadian sources.

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Fort McMurray, AB

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Fort McMurray, AB in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Alberta Emergency Management Agency, refreshed every 5 minutes. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 15 active fires within 300 miles of Fort McMurray, AB. None are inside Fort McMurray city limits. The most significant is the Wb8 fire, 164 miles away at 3,353 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Fort McMurray, AB in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Athabasca Valley monitor is good (AQI 18).

House pin: Fort McMurray, AB. Bold outline: Fort McMurray city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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Fires by distance

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9,541 acres
≤ 300 mi
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268K acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burning right now0 acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)150K acres

Fires currently burning within 25 miles of Fort McMurray cover 0 acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 150K acres here.

Source: Canadian National Fire Database, large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires near Fort McMurray, AB

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Fort McMurray

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. WB19 Fire · Grew 5,199 acres in 68 days to 54,951 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  2. WB17 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 36,708 acres (from 37,226)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  3. WB20 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 29,082 acres (from 29,613)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  4. WB16 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 6,027 acres (from 6,689)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  5. WB23 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 58 acres (from 84)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

Historic fires near Fort McMurray

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Tocker
1995
607,879 acres · 83 mi away
Abat
1998
348,419 acres · 80 mi away
Dl1009
1995
327,856 acres · 57 mi away
15bn-Brady
2015
314,757 acres · 69 mi away
11ll-Gerald
2011
245,571 acres · 69 mi away
Carrot Lake Fire
2023
81,886 acres · 81 mi away

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