2025 Canadian Wildfire Season: Musgrave Harbour and Chance Harbour Wildfires (Newfoundland)

Direct link to July 16th or 17th video from CBC News on YouTube

Direct link to July 20th video from Peter Barfoot on YouTube

I was vaguely aware of wildfires burning in eastern Canada, and I have to thank a Canadian friend for making me aware of the Musgrave Harbour Wildfire that is still burning in Newfoundland, Canada, He sent me a July 20th article from The Telegram with good information on the Musgrave Harbour Wildfire which was first reported on Saturday, July 19th with mandatory evacuation orders in place. As of July 20th, that wildfire has burned abut 1,700 hectares or approximately 4,200 acres. As an added and unexpected bonus the article my friend sent me also referred to the Chance Harbour Wildfire which according to the article has burned about 1,700 hectares

I did have a link to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center in my bookmarks and they do have a good map with locations of wildfires burning in Canada and a daily situation report with summaries by province of wildfires, through the situation report I found a link to a website for Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture. When I navigated to their wildfire dashboard, I saw that one of my browsers was not able to display their map but I was able to navigate to a list of active wildfires. I was able to find current acreage burned for the Chance Harbour Wildfire of 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres). I found no information for a wildfire named Musgrave Harbour but there was information for the Ragged Harbour Wildfire which has burned 1,800 hectares. 

Regarding the two videos that I shared above, the video on the Musgrave Harbour Wildfire is dated July 20th and the approximate date of the video on the Chance Harbour Wildfire is July 16th. You will see Scoopers working the Musgrave Harbour Wildfire. Evacuation orders for some residents living near the Chance Harbour Wildfire were in place at the time the video was shot, I do not know if these orders are still in effect.

I wrote an update on these wildfires on July 23rd