North American Wildfires of 2025
Multiple large wildfires are currently burning across Canada in parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, forcing over 30,000 residents to evacuate. The 2025 season is the second worst wildfire season on record in Canada, behind only the 2023 wildfire season in terms of hectares of land burned.
The largest fire has grown to 1,397,877 acres (565,701 hectares) near Candle Lake in central Saskatchewan. In total, around 18.1 million acres (7.3 million hectares) have burned across Canada. Smoke from the wildfires has pushed into the United States, plaguing the skies over major metropolitans.
In mid-May, several large wildfires erupted in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota.
The Camp House Fire started on May 11, 2025, with the Jenkins Creek Fire beginning a day later on May 12, 2025. The Camp House Fire grew to 12,071 acres (4,885 hectares), while the Jenkins Creek Fire burned 16,490 acres (6,673 hectares). A third, smaller fire, named the Munger Shaw Fire, also ignited on May 12, 2025 and scorched 1,259 acres (509 hectares). On June 13, 2025, the Munger Shaw and Camp House fires were declared 100% contained, with the Jenkins Creek fire following suit on June 21, 2025.
In mid-June, the France Canyon and Forsyth fires ignited in southwestern Utah. Both are fully contained, with the France Canyon fire burning 34,943 acres (14,140 hectares) and the Forsyth fire burning 15,662 acres (6,338 hectares).
Summertime also is the when the Alaska wildfire season occurs, usually lasting from late May to late July. As of mid-July, 839,400 acres (334,000 hectares) have burned across the state in 2025.
On July 2, 2025, the Madre fire ignited in Southern California, burning 80,779 acres (32,690 hectares) before being declared fully contained on July 26, 2025. A month later on August 1, 2025, the Gifford fire ignited near the burn scar of the Madre fire, burning over 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares).
Multiple fires have continued to ignite and burn throughout this summer across parts of the western US. In Oregon, the Cram fire burned 95,736 acres (38,743 hectares) before being fully contained. On July 6, 2025, the Bear Gulch fire ignited in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, having scorched 20,233 acres (8,188 hectares) when it was declared fully contained on November 6, 2025.
Wildfires also popped-up in Utah and Colorado, including a wildfire that briefly closed down the Black Canyon of the Gunnison national park. On August 2, 2025, the Lee fire ignited in western Colorado, scorching over 135,000 acres (54,600 hectares) and becoming the fifth largest in state history.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, the Dragon Bravo fire ignited near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It shut down the northern section of the national park, burning over 145,000 acres (58,600 hectares) before being fully contained just under three months later.
The Garnet Fire ignited in California’s Sierra National Forest on August 24, 2025, being produced by a lightning strike. In September 2025, it grew large enough to encroach upon the McKinley Grove of giant sequoia trees.
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