Closures and disruptions caused by the wildfires in Manitoba

CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 9:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Several areas successful eastbound Manitoba person been closed disconnected arsenic wildfires proceed to wreak havoc and make disruptions successful the region.

About 21 fires were progressive successful the state arsenic of Thursday, with blazes successful the RM of Lac du Bonnet and northbound and eastbound of the Whiteshell ruled to beryllium retired of control.

Here's a database of disruptions and closures caused by the wildfires. They're existent arsenic of Thursday astatine 7 p.m.

Road closures

• Highway 203 from westbound Jct. Highway 12 to eastbound Jct. Highway 12 (Piney), adjacent Woodridge, Carrick and Badger.
• Highway 210 from Highway 12 to Highway 404 successful Marchand Provincial Park.
• Highway 304 from Highway 314 to Bissett.
• Highway 314 from Highway 315 to Highway 304., crossed Nopiming Provincial Park.
• Highway 315 from Highway 313 successful Nopiming to Highway 314 successful Pinawa Bay.
• Highway 433 from Highway 313 to Cape Coppermine.
• Highway 313 from eastbound of Lac du Bonnet to Pointe Du Bois.
• Highway 307 from Seven Sisters to Highway 44 Westbound successful Rennie.
• Highway 44 from Jct Highway 307 successful Rennie to Highway 1 successful West Hawk Lake.
• Highway 301 from Highway 44 adjacent West Hawk Lake to Highway 1 successful Falcon Lake.

Parks

Whiteshell Provincial Park volition stay closed to the nationalist until conditions improve. Access to the parkland was restricted arsenic of 1 p.m. connected Thursday. 

Nopiming, Pinawa Dam, Poplar Bay, Wallace Lake, Woodridge, South Atikaki and Manigotagan River provincial parks besides stay closed owed to a section authorities of emergency.

Camping reservations person been cancelled until May 30 successful Nopiming, and May 22 successful Whiteshell. 

Full campfire bans are successful spot successful each provincial parks successful eastbound and cardinal Manitoba. Backcountry question volition besides beryllium restricted crossed southeastern Manitoba, with motorized and non-motorized question prohibited without a permit.

The afloat database of park-related occurrence and question restrictions tin beryllium recovered here.

Hydro 

Manitoba Hydro said successful a merchandise Thursday day it's moving to reconstruct powerfulness successful areas affected by the wildfires. About 400 customers remained without energy arsenic of that morning, the inferior said.

Hydro was capable to reconstruct powerfulness to astir 900 customers on the Lee River precocious Wednesday.

Manitoba Hydro generating stations astatine Pointe du Bois and Slave Falls were evacuated precocious Wednesday.