{"id":86094,"date":"2026-08-24T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86094"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:02:54","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-23\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 23,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>One new wildland fire was confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 23.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e193b2b539c478b748326176f2c5f9780\"><strong>Nipigon 101 (NIP101)<\/strong> is located near Pauloski Lake, approximately 12 kilometers northwest of Onaman Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 63 active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 6 are not under control, 4 are being held, 10 are under control and 43 are 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=\"e193074aa7614e14c2eef305358f3492a\">Wildland fire activity across the Complex remains low.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee2f777abfb658fc79eac0181eb68fe22\">184 personnel are assigned to the complex, including FireRanger crews from Ontario and Mexico, flight crews and engineers supporting 14 helicopters, overhead personnel, support staff, and an Incident Management Team (IMT).<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e710c219ca909987a8bf84817a3043bb3\">Fire Operations staff and FireRangers are being supported by helicopters equipped with belly tanks and buckets.<\/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 30,088 \u00a0hectares 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=\"e5eed027a574a16867d23fa2ec638abbe\">Low fire behaviour has been observed in recent days.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1c5d11b65822716f24aabf5039a704fb\">Firefighters continue to extinguish hotspots identified through the most recent infrared scans.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e2c043f632a6aacb5e77f56dcaebe6e2e\">There are firefighters from Ontario and from Mexico assigned to the complex.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5939ebbc54c8ba2522ebdc8611bb6aa0\"><strong>FOR013<\/strong> is currently measuring 25,476 \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 23,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). One new wildland fire was confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 23. Nipigon 101 (NIP101) is located near Pauloski Lake, approximately 12 kilometers northwest of Onaman Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control. At the time of this update there are 63 active &#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-86094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 10:04:10","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\/86094","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=86094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86095,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions\/86095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}