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Idaho Wildfires: Live Fire Map

8
Active fires
16K
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
20
Typical air quality · worst 135 near Boundary County
Current situation

Idaho

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
4
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in Blaine, the only Idaho county with a live evacuation feed. 43 of its 44 counties have no feed, so orders or warnings there will not appear here. See which counties are covered below.
Idaho currently has 8 active wildfires burning a combined 15,887 acres. 4 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Moose Mountain fire in Clearwater County at 5,832 acres, 90% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 23 monitoring stations is good (AQI 20); the worst reading right now is AQI 135 (unhealthy for sensitive groups) near Boundary County.
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Bold outline: Idaho boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Idaho

Live evacuation feed coverage
1of 44 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 43 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed43
  • Ada
  • Adams
  • Bannock
  • Bear Lake
  • Benewah
  • Bingham
  • Boise
  • Bonner
  • Bonneville
  • Boundary
  • Butte
  • Camas
  • Canyon
  • Caribou
  • Cassia
  • Clark
  • Clearwater
  • Custer
  • Elmore
  • Franklin
  • Fremont
  • Gem
  • Gooding
  • Idaho
  • Jefferson
  • Jerome
  • Kootenai
  • Latah
  • Lemhi
  • Lewis
  • Lincoln
  • Madison
  • Minidoka
  • Nez Perce
  • Oneida
  • Owyhee
  • Payette
  • Power
  • Shoshone
  • Teton
  • Twin Falls
  • Valley
  • Washington
Live feed1
  • Blaine
1 official source, checked every 5 minutes
  • Blaine County Emergency Management

No zone in this feed is under an evacuation order or warning right now. If one is issued, it will appear here and on the map above.

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This season vs the last decade

195% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026873K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)448K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)448K acres

So far in 2026, 873K acres have burned in Idaho, 195% of the 448K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 448K acres.

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

Active fires in Idaho

Latest fire updates in Idaho

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

  1. Silver Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Silver Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Border Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  4. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  5. East Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  6. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  7. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  8. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 55%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  9. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  10. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026

  11. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  12. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

Wildfire history in Idaho

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2015
Worst year · 1.2M acres
1,161
Fires / year · average
15K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
932
Structures destroyed
5
Lives lost
$1.9B
Reported cost

From 2,076 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1.2M
577K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
221K
111K
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July and August account for 84% of the acreage burned in Idaho in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
8001.6K2014: 990 fires20142015: 1.3K fires2016: 709 fires20162017: 1.6K fires2018: 1.1K fires20182019: 971 fires2020: 960 fires20202021: 1.3K fires2022: 1.1K fires20222023: 903 fires2024: 1.4K fires20242025: 1.5K fires2026: 1.1K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Idaho averaged 528K acres burned and 1,218 fires per year. That is 3% up in acreage and 8% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline.

Wildfire history near you

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

  • Murphy Complex20073 structures destroyed652,016 acres
  • Long Butte201012 structures destroyed306,113 acres
  • Cascade Complex20075 structures destroyed302,376 acres
  • East Zone Complex200713 structures destroyed300,022 acres
  • Soda20151 structure destroyed285,361 acres

Fires near a city in Idaho

BoiseCoeur d'AleneIdaho FallsSun Valley

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)