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Yukon Wildfires: Live Fire Map

26
Active fires
4,283
Acres
16
Under 50% contained
28
Air quality · good province-wide
Current situation

Yukon

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
1
New fires (48h)
0
Yukon currently has 26 active wildfires burning a combined 4,283 acres. One of them is a large incident of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the XY011 fire at 2,348 acres.
Air quality is good across all 1 monitoring station in the province right now (typical AQI 28, peak 28).
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Bold outline: Yukon boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Yukon

Yukon 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

1% of an average year
Burning right now4.3K acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)451K acres

Fires currently burning in Yukon cover 4.3K acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 451K acres here.

Active fires in Yukon

Wildfire history in Yukon

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

2004
Worst year · 4.2M acres
31
Large fires / year · average
1,040
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
1.3M
649K
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Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
148K
74K
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June and July account for 79% of the acreage burned in Yukon in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
701391990: 21 fires19901991: 43 fires1992: 10 fires1993: 21 fires1994: 67 fires1995: 28 fires19951996: 22 fires1997: 4 fires1998: 34 fires1999: 37 fires2000: 7 fires20002001: 4 fires2002: 7 fires2003: 17 fires2004: 139 fires2005: 13 fires20052006: 18 fires2007: 19 fires2008: 12 fires2009: 31 fires2010: 21 fires20102011: 14 fires2012: 37 fires2013: 37 fires2014: 4 fires2015: 44 fires20152016: 4 fires2017: 44 fires2018: 20 fires2019: 38 fires2020: 4 fires20202021: 11 fires2022: 103 fires2023: 105 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Yukon averaged 476K acres burned and 52 fires per year. That is 6% up in acreage and 94% up in fire count versus the 1990–2018 baseline.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Yukon? 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 Yukon

Whitehorse

Nearby provinces

Northwest Territories (198)Quebec (193)Ontario (178)Manitoba (144)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)