Started on Jun 26, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Expanding at a steady rate of approximately 1,400 hectares per day, the wildfire near the North Slave Region in the Northwest Territories has now been burning for 20 days. The blaze has consumed 28,000 hectares, or roughly 69,189 acres, of land since it began on June 26, 2026.
The fire remains active, with satellite monitoring from NASA FIRMS identifying 43 distinct heat detections within the last 48 hours. These clusters indicate the ongoing spread of the fire across the region.
In context
This wildfire burned in Northwest Territories for 106 days. In total it burned about 28,000 ha (69,189 acres) — around 280 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Canada
Across Canada, roughly 2,619,691 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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