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Wildfires in New Brunswick
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 853 km² of New Brunswick at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 107 km², ranking 10th 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 164 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 58 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% lower 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.
April, May and June together hold 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 May 2015, with detections in 47 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 853 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 637 | 75% |
| 2 years | 63 | 7.4% |
| 3 to 5 years | 112 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 37 | 4.4% |
| 11 years or more | 3.5 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.25, -66.25 and holds 46% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 123 | 262 |
| 2013 | 140 | 348 |
| 2014 | 106 | 210 |
| 2015 | 157 | 307 |
| 2016 | 116 | 270 |
| 2017 | 80 | 235 |
| 2018 | 93 | 208 |
| 2019 | 74 | 218 |
| 2020 | 60 | 197 |
| 2021 | 112 | 266 |
| 2022 | 83 | 205 |
| 2023 | 58 | 180 |
| 2024 | 134 | 295 |
| 2025 | 164 | 422 |
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
- Manitoba6,670 km² in an average year
- Quebec4,640 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
- Nova Scotia184 km
- Massachusetts, United States531 km
- Quebec548 km
- New York, United States688 km
- New Jersey, United States820 km
- Delaware, United States989 km