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Nova Scotia Wildfires: Live Fire Map

2
Active fires
86
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
23
Air quality · good province-wide
Current situation

Nova Scotia

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
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Nova Scotia currently has 2 active wildfires burning a combined 86 acres. The biggest is the 09-013 fire at 74 acres, 100% contained.
Air quality is good across all 5 monitoring stations in the province right now (typical AQI 23, peak 26).

Bold outline: Nova Scotia boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia 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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Active fires in Nova Scotia

Latest fire updates in Nova Scotia

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

  1. 09-013 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    71 days ago · July 16, 2026
  2. 06-013 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    71 days ago · July 16, 2026

Wildfire history in Nova Scotia

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

2023
Worst year · 60K acres
1
Large fires / year · average
17
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
60K
30K
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'23
Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
4.6K
2.3K
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April and May account for 99% of the acreage burned in Nova Scotia in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
231990: 2 fires19901991: 1 fires1992: 1 fires19921999: 1 fires2003: 1 fires20032006: 3 fires2008: 1 fires20082009: 1 fires2014: 1 fires20142016: 1 fires2017: 1 fires20172022: 1 fires2023: 2 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Nova Scotia averaged 14K acres burned and 1 fires per year. That is 551% up in acreage and 13% down in fire count versus the 1990–2009 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

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Fires near a city in Nova Scotia

Nearby provinces