FireSmoke Canada
Welcome to the Canadian portal for information about wildland fire weather and smoke. From here you can access the BlueSky Canada smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information, and the BlueSky Playground. The Weather Forecast Research Team at the University of British Columbia produces these research forecasts with support from multiple agencies. These tools and data serve professionals in the air quality, health & safety, emergency management, and science & research communities as well as the public. We are also a community of practice that advances policies, plans & organizations to address wildland fire and smoke issues.
Smoke Forecasts
High resolution, interactive forecasts of
hourly, daily average and daily maximum
concentrations of PM2.5 smoke particles
at ground level from wildfires.
News
July 3, 2024 We are pleased to announce that a new, improved version of BlueSky Playground is now available. Playground is an ad-hoc, on-demand smoke modelling tool which allows users to create emissions scenarios for prescribed burns and wildfires, then model the resulting smoke dispersion. You can access Playground - Express from the Playground page; more advanced versions are under development.
June 19, 2024 A maintenance outage is planned for Thursday, June 20, 18:00-23:59 PDT (UTC-7) to upgrade network infrastructure in the data centre. Access to firesmoke.ca may be interrupted during this time.
November 1, 2023 We are now only publishing one smoke forecast per day now that the Canadian fire season is over (March 1 - October 31). This forecast is typically published around 15:00 UTC, depending on the number of fires burning, met forecast availability, etc.
July 19, 2023 We now have a French version of the website available. Look for the "Fr" link in the navbar at the top of each page to switch to French, and the corresponding "En" link to switch back to English.
