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Alabama Wildfires: Live Fire Map

4
Active fires
1,043
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
11
Typical air quality · worst 54 near NO. BHAM
Current situation

Alabama

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Alabama currently has 4 active wildfires burning a combined 1,043 acres. The biggest is the Ray Coaker fire in Washington County at 707 acres, 100% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 21 monitoring stations is good (AQI 11); the worst reading right now is AQI 54 (moderate) near NO. BHAM.
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Bold outline: Alabama boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Alabama

Alabama does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

178% of an average year
Burned so far in 202621K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)12K acres

So far in 2026, 21K acres have burned in Alabama, 178% of the 12K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Alabama

Latest fire updates in Alabama

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Ray Coaker Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  2. Franklin Bend Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  3. Ray Coaker Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  4. Franklin Bend Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  5. Ray Coaker Fire · Grew 471 acres in 45 hours to 707 acres

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  6. Bobo Fire · New perimeter mapped at 26 acres (national perimeter feed)

    15 days ago · September 10, 2026

Wildfire history in Alabama

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 21K acres
76
Fires / year · average
991
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
111
Structures destroyed
1
Lives lost
$8.1M
Reported cost

From 742 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
21K
10K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
3.2K
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February through April account for 56% of the acreage burned in Alabama in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
711412014: 32 fires20142015: 44 fires2016: 133 fires20162017: 49 fires2018: 50 fires20182019: 88 fires2020: 39 fires20202021: 47 fires2022: 88 fires20222023: 76 fires2024: 141 fires20242025: 114 fires2026: 90 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Alabama averaged 16K acres burned and 102 fires per year. That is 108% up in acreage and 69% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Alabama? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Alabama

  • Bay Fire20054,395 acres
  • County Line20004,000 acres
  • North East Area Complex20013,790 acres
  • Mud Creek Fire20113,000 acres
  • Mt Weisner 201120112,900 acres

Fires near a city in Alabama

Birmingham

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)