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Fires Near Thunder Bay, ON

Live wildfire tracking around Thunder Bay: 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
26 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Thunder Bay, ON

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 26 miles away.
There are currently 134 active fires within 300 miles of Thunder Bay, ON, including 10 within 100 miles. None are inside Thunder Bay city limits. The most significant is the For-014 fire, 87 miles away at 136,171 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Thunder Bay, ON in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Grand Portage monitor 35 miles away is good (AQI 18).

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

Evacuation status

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

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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86 acres
≤ 100 mi
10
332K acres
≤ 200 mi
78
1.4M acres
≤ 300 mi
134
1.6M acres

Active fires near Thunder Bay, ON

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Thunder Bay

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

  1. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026
  2. Bog Fire · New perimeter mapped at 55 acres (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · September 14, 2026
  3. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped at 8 acres (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026
  4. Quartz Fire · New perimeter mapped at 3 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026
  5. Tractor Fire · New perimeter mapped at 2 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026
  6. Bear Trap Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026
  7. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026
  8. Sioux Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026
  9. Wolfpack Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Historic fires near Thunder Bay

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Ham Lake
2007
36,443 acres · 76 mi away
Cavity Lake Fire
2006
31,830 acres · 83 mi away

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