Wildfire near Unorganized Division No. 18 (Jun 23)
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🟤 red/brown = burned
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Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Burning across a trajectory of forty-one days with an average daily growth of twenty-six hectares per day, an active wildfire spanning one thousand and eighty-three hectares (two thousand six hundred and seventy-six acres) continues to progress in Unorganized Division No. 18, Saskatchewan. Satellites have registered sixteen heat detections near the perimeter over the past forty-eight hours, charting the steady expansion of the blaze in a region where the typical fire season spans from May to September.
This incident unfolds against a broader national backdrop where two million eighty-one thousand six hundred and forty-nine hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking fifty-one percent below the country's two-decade average. The fire, which originally started on June 23, remains active as monitoring agencies track its ongoing footprint.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Saskatchewan for 42 days. So far it has affected roughly 1,083 ha (2,676 acres) — about 11 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 2,102,567 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 50% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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