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Wildfires in Saskatchewan
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 125,430 km² of Saskatchewan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 10,300 km², ranking 3rd 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 31,960 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 2,680 km². The 2021–2025 average is 68% 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 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 July 2015, with detections in 4,185 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 125,430 km² with at least one detection, 1.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 109,100 | 87% |
| 2 years | 14,730 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,520 | 1.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 58 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 20 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 55.75, -102.75 and holds 1.8% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,560 | 9,509 |
| 2013 | 6,330 | 15,091 |
| 2014 | 7,060 | 15,179 |
| 2015 | 22,090 | 51,216 |
| 2016 | 6,130 | 11,137 |
| 2017 | 10,230 | 25,224 |
| 2018 | 4,220 | 7,473 |
| 2019 | 2,680 | 4,944 |
| 2020 | 3,240 | 5,035 |
| 2021 | 13,080 | 33,717 |
| 2022 | 3,620 | 7,832 |
| 2023 | 16,720 | 43,587 |
| 2024 | 12,240 | 42,288 |
| 2025 | 31,960 | 96,829 |
Other regions of Canada
- British Columbia11,620 km² in an average year
- Northwest Territories10,790 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
- 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
- Manitoba125 km
- Northwest Territories764 km
- North Dakota, United States889 km
- Alberta976 km
- Montana, United States1,189 km
- Wisconsin, United States1,236 km