Preliminary estimates suggest that the 2023 wildfire season caused approximately 232,000 people to evacuate their communities over 282 events, consequently causing disruption to economic activity for many businesses. This article discusses the amount of economic activity that was at risk of being affected, but not necessarily disrupted, by wildfires across Canada during the 2023 wildfire season. …The 2023 season was the largest ever recorded by land area affected, and the 2024 season was the second largest in the past two decades. The value of production in areas that were directly affected by wildfires in 2023 was assessed across Canada, and in the Jasper area in 2024. Although the wildfires affected large areas of land, their potential effects on overall GDP are relatively limited at a national scale (except for the Northwest Territories). However, for smaller places that were affected, these impacts are potentially quite large at the local scale, particularly for those that experienced longer evacuation periods.