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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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Fires within 100 mi
75 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

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 orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Fort McMurray, AB. 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 58 active fires within 300 miles of Fort McMurray, AB, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Fort McMurray city limits. The most significant is the Lwf-081 fire, 75 miles away at 12 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 27).

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

City limits
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no fires
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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0 acres
≤ 100 mi
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19 acres
≤ 200 mi
12
20K acres
≤ 300 mi
58
470K 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. Canadian records count large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires near Fort McMurray, AB

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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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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