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Arkansas Wildfires: Live Fire Map

6
Active fires
3,219
Acres
4
Under 50% contained
33
Typical air quality · worst 63 near ADEQ-DSR
Current situation

Arkansas

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
1
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
2
NWS alerts
0
Arkansas currently has 6 active wildfires burning a combined 3,219 acres. One of them is a large incident of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Bunker fire in Calhoun County at 2,849 acres, 95% contained. Dispatch centers have logged 2 new fire reports in Arkansas in the last 24 hours (2 treated as wildfires), 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 8 monitoring stations is good (AQI 33); the worst reading right now is AQI 63 (moderate) near ADEQ-DSR.
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Bold outline: Arkansas boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Arkansas

Arkansas 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

563% of an average year
Burned so far in 202641K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)7.3K acres

So far in 2026, 41K acres have burned in Arkansas, 563% of the 7.3K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Arkansas

Latest fire updates in Arkansas

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

  1. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    43 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  2. Ar State Assist Deer Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 4 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  3. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  4. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  5. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 65%

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  6. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 30%

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026

  7. Bunker Fire · Grew 882 acres in 13 hours to 2,832 acres

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026

  8. Bunker Fire · Grew 552 acres in 4 hours to 1,950 acres

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  9. Bunker Fire · Containment dropped to 0% (from 75%)

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  10. Bunker Fire · Mapped size revised down to 1,398 acres (from 2,338)

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  11. Bunker Fire · Grew 2,138 acres in 4 hours to 2,338 acres

    11 days ago · September 15, 2026

  12. Bunker Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · September 15, 2026

Wildfire history in Arkansas

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 41K acres
227
Fires / year · average
2,945
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
304
Structures destroyed
2
Lives lost
$5.3M
Reported cost

From 586 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
41K
20K
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'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
1.9K
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February and March account for 52% of the acreage burned in Arkansas in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
8021.6K2014: 15 fires20142015: 134 fires2016: 170 fires20162017: 185 fires2018: 107 fires20182019: 79 fires2020: 64 fires20202021: 76 fires2022: 184 fires20222023: 87 fires2024: 111 fires20242025: 130 fires2026: 1.6K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Arkansas averaged 12K acres burned and 423 fires per year. That is 55% up in acreage and 308% 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 Arkansas? 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 Arkansas

  • Brantley Cabin20079,000 acres
  • No Man'S Land20068,294 acres
  • Flatside20064,675 acres
  • Big Point20164,122 acres
  • Shoe Mountain Fire20164,000 acres

Fires near a city in Arkansas

Little Rock

Nearby states

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