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Ontario Wildfires: Live Fire Map

178
Active fires
1.6M
Acres
121
Under 50% contained
21
Typical air quality · worst 64 near London
Current situation

Ontario

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
42
New fires (48h)
0
Ontario currently has 178 active wildfires burning a combined 1.6 million acres. 42 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the THU-036 fire at 928,924 acres.
Typical air quality across the province's 39 monitoring stations is good (AQI 21); the worst reading right now is AQI 64 (moderate) near London.
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Bold outline: Ontario boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Ontario

Ontario 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.

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

266% of an average year
Burning right now1.6M acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)602K acres

Fires currently burning in Ontario cover 1.6M acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 602K acres here.

Active fires in Ontario

Wildfire history in Ontario

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

2021
Worst year · 1.9M acres
39
Large fires / year · average
1,337
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
1.9M
962K
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June and July account for 83% of the acreage burned in Ontario in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
721441990: 47 fires19901991: 54 fires1992: 27 fires1993: 16 fires1994: 44 fires1995: 144 fires19951996: 141 fires1997: 18 fires1998: 81 fires1999: 57 fires2000: 8 fires20002001: 18 fires2002: 55 fires2003: 35 fires2004: 1 fires2005: 20 fires20052006: 67 fires2007: 15 fires2008: 3 fires2009: 21 fires2010: 14 fires20102011: 72 fires2012: 50 fires2013: 27 fires2014: 5 fires2015: 23 fires20152016: 9 fires2017: 40 fires2018: 64 fires2019: 20 fires2020: 12 fires20202021: 76 fires2022: 3 fires2023: 50 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Ontario averaged 741K acres burned and 32 fires per year. That is 79% up in acreage and 21% down 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 Ontario? 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 Ontario

TorontoOttawaThunder BaySudbury

Nearby provinces

Northwest Territories (198)Quebec (193)Manitoba (144)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)Yukon (26)