2025 Canadian Wildfire Season: Kingston Wildfire, eastern Newfoundland

Direct link to Aug 9th video from The Candian Press on YouTube

On August 6th I wrote about wildfires burning in eastern Newfoundland with updated information on August 7th and 9th. I am focusing today on the Kingston Wildfire in eastern Newfoundland. I went to the Wildfire Dashboard on the Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture Website to check out the information (including a map) they have on wildfires in Newfoundland (accessed on Aug 11th at 12:30 PM) Before a discuss the Kingston Wildfire, a brief update. The Holyrood Wildfire in eastern NF is now under control at 22 hectares or 54 acres burned. The Martin Lake Wildfire in central NF is still out of control with a slight increase in acreage burned of 265 hectares or 655 acres burned, up from 150 hectares that I reported on August 6th. 

All of Canada is seeing a lot of wildfires, for the latest information on wildfires in all of Canada go to this interactive map from Canada's Natural Resources, click on overlay and you can select various overlay options, e.g. active wildfires and fire danger. For example a friend told me about wildfires in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

Moving to the Kingston Wildfire that has burned 5,236 hectares or 12,938 acres, up from 721 hectares on August 6th.  According to the Canadian Press video evacuation remain in place and new orders have been placed due to extreme wildfire behavior ground crews were removed because of safety considerations. The government declared a state of emergency on August 9th covering the areas in Newfoundland affected by recent wildfires.

I found an August 10th report on the Kingston Fire on CBC that may be here. They say that more structures are threatened but due to the extreme fire behavior they have not been able to confirm if more structures have been destroyed. In addition, they report that there are airtankers and helicopters, including at least one high capacity helicopter, and a bird dog aircraft working this wildfire in support of the ground crews.