Moose Jaw

Next 7 daysLow0%

Quiet now. The season usually starts mid April

Annual mean: 0detections
Peak period: mid April – early June
Record year: 20206
Trend: −51%/ 10significant · on raw data: 0%

Fire clock

Ring = year, slice = week. Tap a week to see its fires on the map.

Total detections per year: ODLAR's corrected record (on the VIIRS Suomi NPP scale) and the raw record (MODIS and VIIRS joined as they are)
Year	Harmonized	Raw
2001	2	0
2002	2	0
2003	1	0
2004	1	0
2005	1	0
2006	1	0
2007	1	0
2008	1	0
2009	1	0
2010	1	0
2011	1	0
2012	0	0
2013	0	0
2014	0	0
2015	1	1
2016	1	1
2017	4	4
2018	0	1
2019	0	0
2020	6	8
2021	2	4
2022	0	0
2023	0	1
2024	0	1
2025	0	2
2026	0	0

Tap a week to see the detections behind it.

Lighter: less certain (mostly the MODIS years, before 2012)No observationSatellite outage

A detection is a heat signal seen from space, not burned area or a count of separate fires.

November vs a usual year

Quiet, as usual

Weeks of 26 Oct – 8 Nov, compared with the same weeks of every year since 2001

This month: 0.0
Usual (median): 0.0
Rank: 12 of 26

Next 7 days

Low

Full risk view

Low

Expected detections: ~0.0

A dry month (19 mm)↑
Fires detected in recent days↑
High fuel load↑
Outside the fire season↓

Sun10°

Mon11°

Tue9°

Wed5°

Thu1°

Fri2°

Sat1°

What's ahead

From the next days to a year out. The further ahead, the less certain, and the chart says which part is a forecast and which is just the usual year.

Next 7 days

Low

~0.0 expected · usual <0.1

Next 3 months

About usual

~0.0 expected · usual 0.1

likely 0.0–0.0 · usual 0.0–0.1

Season

Starts ~19 April
Peak ~12 April

ForecastLikely rangeUsualUsual rangedetections / week

How sure is this?

Daily fire weather: the Open-Meteo weather forecast, most reliable for the first 3 days.
Next 7 days: tested on 6 past years, the model ranked a week that turned busy above a quiet one 86 times in 100 (the season alone: 72).
Next 3 months: the real total fell inside the likely range 76 times in 100 (the usual range alone: 71).
Beyond 3 months: the usual year. 8 in 10 past years fell inside the grey band. Weather that far ahead is not known.

Season

mid April – mid October

Onset: mid April
Peak: mid April
End: mid October

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

mid April – early June
48% of annual activity
late August – mid September
16% of annual activity

The normal year vs 2026

Bands show the 25-year range; the white line is this year so far.

Compare with

25-year history

The raw record jumps in 2012 when VIIRS arrives; the harmonized record does not.

Harmonized: −51%/10Raw: 0%/10

HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Jump test (Pettitt): the raw record jumps in 2015 to 0.0× its earlier level (p 0.006). ODLAR's record has none (p 0.13).

Unusual years

5

2015
1
peak 5.0× stronger than normal
season ended 30 weeks early
2016
1
peak 5.0× stronger than normal
season began 13 weeks late
season ended 15 weeks early
2017
4
peak 20× stronger than normal
season began 20 weeks late
season ended 8 weeks early
2020
6
5.5× the normal annual activity
peak 30× stronger than normal
season ended 28 weeks early
2021
2
peak 10.0× stronger than normal
season began 6 weeks late
season ended 22 weeks early

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