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Wildfires in Quebec
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 63,510 km² of Quebec at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,640 km², ranking 6th 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 2023, with 41,260 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 214 km². The 2021–2025 average is 136% 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 92% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 July 2013, with detections in 7,062 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 63,510 km² with at least one detection, 0.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 62,550 | 98% |
| 2 years | 861 | 1.4% |
| 3 to 5 years | 53 | 0.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 17 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 30 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.75, -73.25 and holds 3.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 891 | 2,706 |
| 2013 | 16,390 | 33,197 |
| 2014 | 649 | 1,999 |
| 2015 | 219 | 1,297 |
| 2016 | 512 | 1,710 |
| 2017 | 356 | 1,466 |
| 2018 | 971 | 2,572 |
| 2019 | 264 | 1,245 |
| 2020 | 664 | 1,803 |
| 2021 | 686 | 2,184 |
| 2022 | 424 | 1,565 |
| 2023 | 41,260 | 85,624 |
| 2024 | 1,500 | 3,356 |
| 2025 | 214 | 1,417 |
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
- 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
- New York, United States391 km
- Massachusetts, United States487 km
- New Brunswick548 km
- New Jersey, United States561 km
- Ontario585 km
- Nova Scotia669 km