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Wildfire information for Canada and the United States, brought together and explained.
It brings the wildfire information that exists into one place, explains what it means, and helps agencies see sooner.
See current informationHow it works
Prediction scienceWarnings and evacuation orders come from your local authority.
Find your way in
Each door says what you can do today and whether you need an account.
- Residents and communitiesSee what authorities have published, prepare your household, and find your official wildfire authority.Open to everyone
- Fire and emergency agenciesHow it works beside your systems of record, what it will never do, and how to talk to us.Briefing open · portal needs sign-in
- Researchers and scientistsExplore datasets, experiments and evaluation evidence in the Research Workbench.Reference data open · live data needs sign-in
- Drone and aviationHow aerial evidence reaches a decision, and what is built, simulated or gated.Public site · console needs sign-in
- Utilities, land and asset ownersWhat a data partnership offers and how to contribute data.Open to everyone
- Indigenous Nations and TribesAn invitation to co-govern, not a request for data. Terms originate with partner Nations.Contact
What it does
Before a season
Helps agencies aim prevention and fuel treatment where it reduces the most risk.
During a fire
Satellite fire detections, usually within hours and stamped with when they were observed, with options and trade-offs for the commanders who decide.
Afterwards
Brings national records together while keeping each source’s own definitions, gaps and revisions visible.
Prediction science
Learning from the past. Looking ahead.
Our scientific engine uses machine learning and advanced mathematical models to explore patterns in historical data and estimate wildfire likelihood.
The engine is in research and development. We are working toward repeatable improvements on unseen data and more useful insights for wildfire monitoring.
Explore our research workbenchWhy you can check it
- Every figure opens to show where it came from, how old it is and what disagreed.
- It decides nothing. It does not issue alerts, order resources, direct evacuation or operate aircraft.
- You can see which sources are arriving late. Source availability
- It says when something is simulated or not yet proven.
How it works, in five steps
Collect
Public feeds from agencies in both countries: satellite detections, weather, fuels, drought, lightning and fire records.
Check
Kept as it arrived, and checked before anything uses it.
Compare
Put on common ground, with records of the same fire linked rather than merged.
Work out
Models estimate what a detection is and how it might grow, always as a range.
Show
A shared picture for incident teams, and public records with locations generalised.
Read the platform briefingOpen the slide deckWalk the data journey in 3D
Why this matters
- ~7,000
- Wildfires a year in Canada, 1994–2023 average
- ~2.7M
- Hectares burned a year, same period
A national average hides very large variation from year to year and region to region.
If you need to know what is happening right now
This page explains the platform. It does not carry live fire, smoke or evacuation information, and it is not an alerting service.
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