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Fires Near Yellowknife, NT

Live wildfire tracking around Yellowknife: 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 Yellowknife, NT

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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.
There are currently 20 active fires within 300 miles of Yellowknife, NT. None are inside Yellowknife city limits. The most significant is the Wb9 fire, 137 miles away at 1,878 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Yellowknife, NT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality at this location is good (AQI 32).

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

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Active fires near Yellowknife, NT

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Yellowknife

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

  1. FS016 Fire · Grew 36,752 acres in 68 days to 164,839 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  5. FS014 Fire · Grew 3,768 acres in 68 days to 11,542 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  7. FS011 Fire · Now mapped at 1,908 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

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