Wildfires near Hamilton, ON

Fires near Hamilton right now

NASA's VIIRS sensors detected 29 thermal hotspots in 3 separate clusters within 80 km of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the last 24 h. The closest is 3 km ENE of the city centre (4 km ENE of Hamilton), with 19 detections and a peak fire radiative power of 4 MW, which is low-intensity for a single 375 m pixel.

1 cluster is within 25 km, close enough that smoke, ash or road closures may affect the city. Distances are measured from the city centre to the nearest detection, not to the fire's edge.

Every nearby cluster is low intensity (peak under 10 MW), which is typical of agricultural or garden burning, industrial heat sources such as steel works or flares, or small fires rather than a spreading wildfire.

Across Canada there are 75 fire clusters in the same window, 11 of them in Ontario.

Smoke and wind

Wind at Hamilton is from the SW at 12 km/h (gusts 17 km/h), so smoke near the city drifts toward the NE. Relative humidity is 56% and the temperature 13°C.

Hamilton is not directly downwind of the nearest fire at the moment, though winds shift and plumes from larger fires can still reach the city.

Smoke shows up first as PM2.5 on air-quality monitors; the Hamilton air quality page has the live reading.

Evacuations and official information

GodsView shows satellite detections only. It does not know fire perimeters, containment or evacuation zones. Always follow evacuation orders from local authorities.

CIFFC (ciffc.net) publishes the national wildfire situation; provincial fire status and evacuation alerts come from Ontario Forest Fires (ontario.ca/page/forest-fires). Alertable and local emergency alerts carry evacuation orders.

About satellite fire detections

Satellite thermal hotspots are not all wildfires: gas flares, steel works, volcanoes and planned agricultural or prescribed burns show up too. VIIRS passes over most places about twice a day, so a fire can start or grow between passes, and thick smoke or cloud can hide one.

Fire radiative power (FRP) is the heat a fire gives off, in megawatts per pixel: under 10 MW is usually a small or smouldering fire, over 100 MW an intense flaming front.

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