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Arkansas Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 54Moderate typical air quality, worst 74 near ADEQ-DSR
Current situation

Arkansas

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Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
2
NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Arkansas's 75 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
No active wildfires are currently reported in Arkansas. Conditions can change quickly during fire season, so the live map above stays current if anything ignites. 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 7 monitoring stations is moderate (AQI 54); the worst reading right now is AQI 74 (moderate) near ADEQ-DSR.
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No active fires in Arkansas right now.

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

Evacuation status in Arkansas

Live evacuation feed coverage
0of 75 counties
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This season vs the last decade

735% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202643K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)5.9K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)7.3K acres

So far in 2026, 43K acres have burned in Arkansas, 735% of the 5.9K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 7.3K acres.

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

Active fires in Arkansas

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in Arkansas

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 43K acres
254
Fires / year · average
3,300
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
43K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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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
9792.0K2014: 15 fires20142015: 134 fires2016: 170 fires20162017: 185 fires2018: 107 fires20182019: 79 fires2020: 64 fires20202021: 76 fires2022: 184 fires20222023: 87 fires2024: 111 fires20242025: 130 fires2026: 2.0K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Arkansas averaged 12K acres burned and 494 fires per year. That is 61% up in acreage and 376% 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 (119)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)Wisconsin (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)