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Idaho Wildfires: Live Fire Map

25
Active fires
41K
Acres
3
Under 50% contained
16
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Idaho

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
9
New fires (48h)
3
Dispatch reports (24h)
2
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in Blaine County, the state's counties with live zone feeds. Other counties post notices through their own official channels.
Idaho currently has 25 active wildfires burning a combined 41,008 acres. 9 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, and 3 of those are still under 50% containment. The biggest is the Cascade fire in Idaho County at 7,475 acres, 80% contained. 3 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 2 new fire reports in Idaho 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. Air quality is good across all 28 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 16, peak 44).
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Bold outline: Idaho boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Idaho

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

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Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

106% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026476K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)447K acres

So far in 2026, 476K acres have burned in Idaho, 106% of the 447K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Buck Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N711PB)

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Porcupine Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    41 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  3. Dudley Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N84WL)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  4. Cooper Fire · Mapped size revised down to 176 acres (from 354)

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  5. Wolf Creek Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Three Links Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Grotto Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  8. Buckhorn Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Buckhorn Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026

  10. Cascade Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    7 days ago · September 19, 2026

  11. Cooper Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 18, 2026

  12. Scimitar Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 18, 2026

Wildfire history in Idaho

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2015
Worst year · 1.2M acres
1,153
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: 992 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Idaho averaged 449K acres burned and 1,198 fires per year. That is 12% down in acreage and 6% 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 (200)Texas (111)Oregon (80)New Mexico (76)Oklahoma (62)Montana (59)