Is Something Burning Near Yellowknife?

The active wildfires the national fire map lists near the city right now — each one's stage of control and size — with the official NWT Fire channels that matter in an evacuation.

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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Yellowknife and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.

Fire

Where

Stage of control

Size

SS059-26

108 kilometres southeast

Out of control

2 hectares

2026WB9

222 kilometres south

Out of control

760 hectares

2026WB24

236 kilometres south

Being held

207 hectares

2026WB14

237 kilometres south

Out of control

2,405 hectares

2026WB4

243 kilometres south

Out of control

51,780 hectares

2026WB3

243 kilometres south

Out of control

2 hectares

The official channels

NWT Fire — current wildfire situationThe territory's official fire status and the source for any evacuation alert.

NWT Fire mapThe map residents watch — every active NWT fire and its stage of control.

GNWT public safety & emergenciesHow the territory issues evacuation alerts and notifies the public.

Environment and Climate Change Canada — weatherSmoke and air-quality outlooks; pair it with the town's air-quality tool.

Worth knowing

Smoke can come from far away

Most of the smoke that settles over Yellowknife drifts in from fires hundreds of kilometres off, not a fire at the edge of town. If the air is hazy but this page shows nothing close, the smoke and the nearest fire are usually two different stories — check the air-quality tool and Environment Canada for the haze.

August 2023 is why the official channels come first

In August 2023 the whole city, Ndilǫ, Dettah and the Ingraham Trail were ordered out as fire approached; about 19,000 people left down the single Highway 3 corridor and didn't return until September. The fire was held off. A quiet map today is not a promise — when an order comes it can come quickly, so follow the official alerts, don't wait for a fire to appear here.

One road out

Yellowknife is linked to the south by Highway 3 alone, across the Deh Cho Bridge. In a fire emergency that single corridor is the evacuation route, which is part of why orders here are issued early and cover a wide area.

Is Something Burning Near Yellowknife?

About these tools

The official channels

Where neighbors share news

Worth knowing

Smoke can come from far away

August 2023 is why the official channels come first

One road out