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Colorado Wildfires: Live Fire Map

14
Active fires
163K
Acres
3
Under 50% contained
19
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Colorado

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
6
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
2
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in Boulder and Larimer and Routt and Grand and Douglas Counties, the state's counties with live zone feeds. Other counties post notices through their own official channels.
Colorado currently has 14 active wildfires burning a combined 163,271 acres. 6 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Aspen Acres fire in Custer County at 102,004 acres, 82% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 2 new fire reports in Colorado in the last 24 hours (1 treated as wildfire, 1 smoke check), 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 48 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 19, peak 45).
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Bold outline: Colorado boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Colorado

No zones are under an evacuation order or warning in Colorado right now. Live zone status from Boulder County Emergency Management and Larimer County Emergency Management and Routt County Emergency Management and Grand County Emergency Management and Douglas County 911, refreshed every 5 minutes; if an order or warning is issued it will appear here and shaded on the map above. Live coverage in Colorado is limited to Boulder and Larimer and Routt and Grand and Douglas Counties; other counties post notices through their own official channels.

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This season vs the last decade

164% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026310K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)189K acres

So far in 2026, 310K acres have burned in Colorado, 164% of the 189K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Colorado

Latest fire updates in Colorado

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

  1. Basura Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N751BR)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Aspen Acres Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N3804C)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Swiss Roll Fire · Containment rose to 36%

    6 days ago · September 20, 2026

  4. Schwachheim Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  5. Schwachheim Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  6. Swiss Roll Fire · New perimeter mapped at 777 acres (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · September 13, 2026

  7. Swiss Roll Fire · Containment dropped to 0% (from 36%)

    13 days ago · September 13, 2026

  8. Swiss Roll Fire · Grew 339 acres in 21 hours to 369 acres

    13 days ago · September 12, 2026

  9. Swiss Roll Fire · Official update: COSJF Swiss Roll Fire

    14 days ago · September 12, 2026

  10. Willow Fire · Mapped size revised down to 7,390 acres (from 7,534)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  11. Willow Fire · New perimeter mapped at 7,196 acres (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  12. SW3 Fire · Grew 60 acres in 7 days to 145 acres

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

Wildfire history in Colorado

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 684K acres
965
Fires / year · average
13K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
3,794
Structures destroyed
15
Lives lost
$1.3B
Reported cost

From 833 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
684K
342K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
39K
20K
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June through August account for 61% of the acreage burned in Colorado in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
6471.3K2014: 597 fires20142015: 727 fires2016: 1.1K fires20162017: 893 fires2018: 1.3K fires20182019: 845 fires2020: 1.1K fires20202021: 1.0K fires2022: 873 fires20222023: 831 fires2024: 898 fires20242025: 1.1K fires2026: 1.3K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Colorado averaged 143K acres burned and 1,003 fires per year. That is 25% down in acreage and 7% up 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 Colorado? 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 Colorado

  • Cameron Peak2020444 structures destroyed208,913 acres
  • East Troublesome2020580 structures destroyed · 2 deaths193,812 acres
  • Pine Gulch20206 structures destroyed139,007 acres
  • Hayman2002600 structures destroyed137,760 acres
  • Lee2025137,758 acres

Fires near a city in Colorado

DenverColorado SpringsBoulderFort CollinsGrand JunctionDurango

Nearby states

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