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🇨🇦 Canada: wildfires in October 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Canada, October 2026: 83 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 10:39.

Busiest day: 20 October, with 11 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Prince George, tracked for 6 h. +246% compared with September 2026.

83
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
493
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 83 detection events in Canada, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 493 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 1042026-10-04: 2052026-10-05: 2072026-10-07: 2092026-10-09: 1102026-10-10: 5112026-10-11: 2122026-10-12: 2152026-10-15: 1162026-10-16: 1172026-10-17: 4182026-10-18: 3202026-10-20: 11212026-10-21: 1222026-10-22: 6232026-10-23: 3242026-10-24: 3252026-10-25: 4262026-10-26: 2272026-10-27: 3282026-10-28: 4292026-10-29: 9302026-10-30: 10312026-10-31: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Burns Lake25 Oct, 20:019493
Burns Lake10 Oct, 17:5910436
Mackenzie24 Oct, 20:492407
Prince George20 Oct, 19:5357352
Didsbury17 Oct, 20:496330
Smithers10 Oct, 17:592322
Roblin5 Oct, 17:016253
Houston25 Oct, 18:092231
Smithers10 Oct, 17:5911224
Lumby27 Oct, 01:492209

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Canada, October 2026: 83 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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