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Arizona Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
40
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
31
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Arizona

Critical
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
4
Evac zones
1
NWS alerts
0
County emergency managers currently have 1 zone under Evacuation Orders in Coconino County. Only 1 of Arizona's 15 counties has a live evacuation feed right now, so orders or warnings in the other 14 will not appear here. See which counties are covered below.
Arizona currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 40 acres. The biggest is the Palominas fire in Cochise County at 40 acres. Dispatch centers have logged 4 new fire reports in Arizona in the last 24 hours (1 treated as wildfire, 3 smoke checks), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 72 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 31, peak 50).

Bold outline: Arizona boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Arizona

Live evacuation feed coverage
1of 15 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 14 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed14
  • Apache
  • Cochise
  • Gila
  • Graham
  • Greenlee
  • La Paz
  • Maricopa
  • Mohave
  • Navajo
  • Pima
  • Pinal
  • Santa Cruz
  • Yavapai
  • Yuma
Live feed1
  • Coconino
1 official source, checked every 5 minutes
  • Coconino County Sheriff's Office

Active zones 2

If you are in a zone under an order, leave now and follow official instructions.

  • OrderSedonaCoconino County
  • AdvisoryLake Mary ClosureCoconino County

Every zone is also shaded on the map above. 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.

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Arizona wildfire alerts on your iPhone

Save your address for alerts on new fires, rapid growth, red flag warnings, and evacuation orders across Arizona. With Pro, Fire Nearby calls your phone when an order covers your address.

  • Evacuation order alerts
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This season vs the last decade

17% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202665K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)381K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)383K acres

So far in 2026, 65K acres have burned in Arizona, 17% of the 381K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 383K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in Arizona

Wildfire history in Arizona

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 977K acres
1,845
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
977K
488K
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'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 1,754 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

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