Current Fire Situation

Provincial Forest Fire Update

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The Fire Hazard Map in Ontario makes use of daily weather information and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System to establish the forest fire hazard in each district inside Ontario’s fire regions.  The forest fire hazard is then shown in an easy to understand colour map.

 
The Map of Active Fires in Ontario provides up-to-the-minute information on forest fire locations and status. The map allows users to view active fire locations and status.  Map information is linked to the ministry’s fire database, which is updated regularly as fire information becomes available.

Provincial Forest Fire Update

The fire season has now officially come to an end.   Please check back in the spring of 2010 for more forest fire updates.

The total number of fires this season was 384 burning 20,656 hectares.  The 2009 fire season officially ended on October 31 and it has been the second slowest on record for the number of forest fires, close behind the 2008 forest fire season. Last year, there were 341 fires in Ontario during the forest fire reporting season from April 1, 2008 to October 31, 2008 burning 1,316 hectares.

The East Fire Region recorded 190 fires burning 6,722 hectares while the West Fire Region recorded 194 fires and an area burned 13,934.

Contacts:

Art Osborne
Fire Information Officer - Aviation and Forest Fire Management
705-945-5899

Deb MacLean
Fire Information Officer - West Fire Region
807-937-7241

Lindsay Munroe
Fire Information Officer - East Fire Region
705-564-6028