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Northwest Territories Wildfires: Live Fire Map

198
Active fires
2.0M
Acres
168
Under 50% contained
19
Air quality · good province-wide
Current situation

Northwest Territories

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
65
New fires (48h)
0
Northwest Territories currently has 198 active wildfires burning a combined 2.0 million acres. 65 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the ZF018 fire at 357,181 acres.
Air quality is good across all 2 monitoring stations in the province right now (typical AQI 19, peak 19).
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Bold outline: Northwest Territories boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories 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.

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This season vs the last decade

102% of an average year
Burning right now2.0M acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)1.9M acres

Fires currently burning in Northwest Territories cover 2.0M acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 1.9M acres here.

Active fires in Northwest Territories

Wildfire history in Northwest Territories

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

2023
Worst year · 10.3M acres
59
Large fires / year · average
2,021
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
10.3M
5.1M
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'23
Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
795K
398K
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June and July account for 81% of the acreage burned in Northwest Territories in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
941871990: 17 fires19901991: 38 fires1992: 25 fires1993: 69 fires1994: 107 fires1995: 42 fires19951996: 85 fires1997: 13 fires1998: 97 fires1999: 36 fires2000: 46 fires20002001: 18 fires2002: 13 fires2003: 33 fires2004: 90 fires2005: 41 fires20052006: 32 fires2007: 45 fires2008: 52 fires2009: 2 fires2010: 67 fires20102011: 45 fires2012: 96 fires2013: 93 fires2014: 187 fires2015: 107 fires20152016: 59 fires2017: 111 fires2018: 12 fires2019: 30 fires2020: 17 fires20202021: 41 fires2022: 101 fires2023: 154 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Northwest Territories averaged 2.5M acres burned and 69 fires per year. That is 58% up in acreage and 19% 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 Northwest Territories? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Fires near a city in Northwest Territories

Yellowknife

Nearby provinces

Quebec (193)Ontario (178)Manitoba (144)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)Yukon (26)