It is the largest regional municipality in Canada by area (105650.88km2 | this number includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park of Canada)[7] and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands.

[8] By June 12, 2013, after many days of heavy rain, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo declared a state of emergency.

They organized evacuations from some areas and placed others under boil water advisories as local waterways, such as the Hangingstone River, rose to dangerously elevated levels 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Fort McMurray, causing the closure of Highway 63.

[10] By April 30, 2020, after a 25-kilometre-long ice jam formed in the Athabasca River, flooding the northern Alberta city's downtown and surrounding areas, and forcing 13,000 people from their home, Fort McMurray's spring flood caused more than $520 million in insured damage, according to new numbers from the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

The Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo is in the northeast corner of the province of Alberta.

[12] It borders the province of Saskatchewan to the east; the Northwest Territories to the north; Improvement District No.

24 (Wood Buffalo National Park), Mackenzie County, and the Municipal District of Opportunity No.

[12] The Slave River forms much of the RM of Wood Buffalo's boundary with Improvement District No.

About 21% of these immigrants came from India, while about 10% came from each of Pakistan and the Philippines, and about 9% came from Venezuela, and about 8% from South Africa, about 6% from China, and about 3% came from Colombia.

[34] The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is home to vast oil sand deposits, also known as the Athabasca Oil Sands, helping to make the region one of the fastest growing industrial areas in Canada.

[12] The following provincial protected areas are also within the RM of Wood Buffalo:[12] The municipality's current mayor is Sandy Bowman, who was first elected in 2021.