{"id":85932,"date":"2026-08-17T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85932"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:58:51","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-16\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 16,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:15\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>There were no new wildland fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 16.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 84\u00a0active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 7\u00a0are not under control, 6\u00a0are being held, 9\u00a0are under control and 62\u00a0are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>To access the current forest fire danger rating in your area visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca\/ForestFireInformationMap\/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM\">interactive fire map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"fires-note\">Fires of note<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Rinker Lake Complex &#8211; Thunder Bay 36 (THU036), Dryden 34 (DRY034), Dryden 35 (DRY035)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eeab54eddf7c4edff92ee567d1864736f\">Wildland fire activity across the Complex is low with FireRanger crews finding fewer areas of smoke and minimal open flame.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e7d56a2f0b8d4043bc7fa2a4087d019a8\">FireRanger crews from Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Mexico continue suppression efforts on hotspots identified by infrared scans. This approach has proven highly effective with crews making excellent progress in extinguishing smouldering underground hotspots. Some crews are creating and maintaining helipads to support the strategic movement of personnel into areas of the Complex that still require suppression activities.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec31d73d3f4bc9b7ffd0401f0c01ffa76\"><strong>THU036<\/strong> is currently measuring 301,240\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee828521e4c4939a92c48cf2221611483\"><strong>DRY034<\/strong> is currently measuring 45,800\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e25414e9a869e9d82cff59c54450d3609\"><strong>DRY035<\/strong> is currently measuring 30,201 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Atikokan Cluster &#8211; Fort Frances 13 (FOR013), Fort Frances 14 (FOR014), Fort Frances 15 (FOR015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e639b0d7a298cb0758e2cfb5a5721e9fa\">Crews continue to seek out and extinguish hotspots identified by infrared scans and demobilize equipment from areas where the fire perimeter has been contained. Helicopters are being utilized for crew and equipment movement as well as bucketing support as required.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea7e7ab481473286fffcbc6c9fb2e3f11\">Minimal fire behaviour was seen today due to yesterday\u2019s precipitation.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5939ebbc54c8ba2522ebdc8611bb6aa0\"><strong>FOR013<\/strong> is currently measuring 25,313\u00a0hectares and remains being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e4d118446115c0ed5f56759d43a15af10\"><strong>FOR014<\/strong> is currently measuring 51,768\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e662867149b6e6406faca59db4bd4fa0f\"><strong>FOR015<\/strong> is currently measuring 42,273\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 16,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:15\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). There were no new wildland fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 16. At the time of this update there are 84\u00a0active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 7\u00a0are not under control, 6\u00a0are being held, 9\u00a0are under control and 62\u00a0are being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-24 10:00:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85933,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85932\/revisions\/85933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}