Category: Hazards

Fire History (Northwest Territories)

Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Climate Change (Forest Management Division); NWT Centre for Geomatics

Commercial
Yes
Format
Shapefile
Coverage
Northwest Territories, Canada
Projection
ESRI:102002 · NAD83 Canada Lambert
Last updated
Added to findgis 30 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Annual

Northwest Territories fire perimeters from 1965 through 2025, using agency maps and, from 1986, imagery outlines with unburned areas removed when possible.

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Publisher
Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Climate Change (Forest Management Division); NWT Centre for Geomatics
License
Attribution
Commercial use
Yes
Attribution required
Yes
Modification allowed
See publisher
Redistribution allowed
See publisher
Share-alike
No
Open Government Licence Northwest Territories (version 1.0): “The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below.” Condition: “Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence.” If no attribution statement is specified: “Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence Northwest Territories.” The open.canada.ca record names the “Open Government Licence Northwest Territories” and links https://www.gov.nt.ca/en/open-government-licence-northwest-territories, which now redirects to the French page; terms.url points to the English page on gnwt.ca. Shapefile metadata use limitation: “Data Use Limitations are governed by the Open Government Licence for the Northwest Territories. Please click the link to review the Licence. https://www.gov.nt.ca/en/open-government-licence-northwest-territories” Exemptions: personal information, records not accessible under access-to-information law, third-party rights the provider cannot license, the provider's names, crests, logos and official symbols, and information subject to other intellectual property rights. No right to suggest official status or endorsement. Licensed “as is”, with no warranty and no liability for errors or omissions.License text
Region
CanadaCA
Type
Vector
Time
1965-01-01–2025-12-31
Extent
-136.4760-10278.76West, south, east, north. Data extent.

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