2025 Forest Fire Mapping and Interpretation

Natural disturbances, such as forest fires, have a major impact on forest cover in Alberta. As a result, it is necessary to capture the extent and attributes of the fires so that the impact of the fires upon natural resources can be determined. Fire boundaries are used to assess the impact of fires on the Annual Allowable Cut, to plan salvage logging and for future landscape level modeling. Forest Stewardship and Trade Branch (FSTB) normally captures the fire boundaries in-house, as per Wildfir