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Wildfires in Manitoba
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 84,010 km² of Manitoba at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 6,670 km², ranking 5th of 13 regions of Canada.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2025, with 27,970 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 2,170 km². The 2021–2025 average is 99% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
June, July and August together hold 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 August 2025, with detections in 5,591 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 84,010 km² with at least one detection, 1.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 76,500 | 91% |
| 2 years | 6,170 | 7.3% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,300 | 1.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 31 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 9.5 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 55.75, -100.75 and holds 2.7% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5,290 | 10,607 |
| 2013 | 12,870 | 32,605 |
| 2014 | 2,390 | 3,791 |
| 2015 | 3,400 | 5,531 |
| 2016 | 2,170 | 3,191 |
| 2017 | 5,110 | 11,449 |
| 2018 | 4,710 | 8,296 |
| 2019 | 2,540 | 4,507 |
| 2020 | 3,050 | 4,347 |
| 2021 | 14,350 | 33,720 |
| 2022 | 2,310 | 5,015 |
| 2023 | 3,020 | 5,994 |
| 2024 | 4,260 | 10,070 |
| 2025 | 27,970 | 80,996 |
Other regions of Canada
- British Columbia11,620 km² in an average year
- Northwest Territories10,790 km² in an average year
- Saskatchewan10,300 km² in an average year
- Alberta8,430 km² in an average year
- Quebec4,640 km² in an average year
- Ontario2,970 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Saskatchewan125 km
- Northwest Territories848 km
- North Dakota, United States900 km
- Alberta1,092 km
- Wisconsin, United States1,160 km
- Montana, United States1,277 km