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Arizona Wildfires: Live Fire Map

14
Active fires
1,174
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
26
Typical air quality · worst 58 near Humboldt Mountain - Tonto N.F.
Current situation

Arizona

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
3
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in Coconino County, the state's counties with live zone feeds. Other counties post notices through their own official channels.
Arizona currently has 14 active wildfires burning a combined 1,174 acres. The biggest is the Paddy Creek fire in Apache County at 668 acres, 100% contained. 2 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 3 new fire reports in Arizona in the last 24 hours (3 smoke checks), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 70 monitoring stations is good (AQI 26); the worst reading right now is AQI 58 (moderate) near Humboldt Mountain - Tonto N.F..
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Bold outline: Arizona boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Active evacuation zones in Arizona

Live zone status from Coconino County Sheriff's Office, refreshed every 5 minutes; every zone is also shaded on the map above. Live coverage in Arizona is limited to Coconino County; other counties post notices through their own official channels.

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Zone codes are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. To check a specific address, use the fire-near-me search on the homepage.

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

17% of an average year
Burned so far in 202665K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)384K acres

So far in 2026, 65K acres have burned in Arizona, 17% of the 384K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Arizona

Latest fire updates in Arizona

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

  1. Flat Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  2. Mount Emma Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  3. Paddy Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  4. Paddy Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  5. Coconino Wash Fire · Official update: AZKNF Kaibab NF Fall Prescribed Fires Tusayan Ranger District

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Mount Emma Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    18 days ago · September 7, 2026

  7. Mount Emma Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    21 days ago · September 5, 2026

  8. Mount Emma Fire · New perimeter mapped at 368 acres (national perimeter feed)

    21 days ago · September 5, 2026

  9. Mount Emma Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    22 days ago · September 4, 2026

  10. Mount Emma Fire · Grew 118 acres in 29 hours to 368 acres

    22 days ago · September 4, 2026

  11. Paddy Creek Fire · Containment rose to 63%

    23 days ago · September 3, 2026

  12. Mount Emma Fire · Mapped size revised down to 250 acres (from 368)

    23 days ago · September 2, 2026

Wildfire history in Arizona

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 983K acres
1,843
Fires / year · average
24K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
995
Structures destroyed
8
Lives lost
$1.3B
Reported cost

From 1,283 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
983K
491K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
151K
76K
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June and July account for 67% of the acreage burned in Arizona in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1.2K2.5K2014: 948 fires20142015: 1.6K fires2016: 2.1K fires20162017: 2.3K fires2018: 2.1K fires20182019: 2.0K fires2020: 2.5K fires20202021: 1.7K fires2022: 1.5K fires20222023: 1.9K fires2024: 2.3K fires20242025: 1.6K fires2026: 1.5K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Arizona averaged 215K acres burned and 1,749 fires per year. That is 46% down in acreage and 8% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Arizona? 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 Arizona

  • Wallow201172 structures destroyed538,049 acres
  • Rodeo/Chediski Complex200231 structures destroyed468,638 acres
  • Cave Creek Complex200511 structures destroyed248,310 acres
  • Horseshoe 2201123 structures destroyed222,954 acres
  • Bush2020193,455 acres

Fires near a city in Arizona

PhoenixTucsonFlagstaffPrescottSedona

Nearby states

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