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Illinois Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Typical air quality · worst 77 near Granite City Fire Station
Current situation

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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Illinois's 102 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Illinois currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 0 acres. The biggest is the Blake fire in Williamson County at 0 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 35 monitoring stations is good (AQI 48); the worst reading right now is AQI 77 (moderate) near Granite City Fire Station.
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Bold outline: Illinois boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Illinois

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This season vs the last decade

282% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026910 acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)323 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)345 acres

So far in 2026, 910 acres have burned in Illinois, 282% of the 323 acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 345 acres.

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

Active fires in Illinois

Wildfire history in Illinois

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

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Worst year · 1,469 acres
27
Fires / year · average
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Total fires · since 2014
Acres burned by year
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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March and April account for 68% of the acreage burned in Illinois in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
28552014: 3 fires20142015: 17 fires2016: 13 fires20162017: 20 fires2018: 12 fires20182019: 17 fires2020: 28 fires20202021: 32 fires2022: 48 fires20222023: 27 fires2024: 43 fires20242025: 42 fires2026: 55 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Illinois averaged 686 acres burned and 43 fires per year. That is 224% up in acreage and 142% 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 Illinois? 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 Illinois

  • Pere Marquette20111,475 acres
  • Illinois Beach2015750 acres
  • Goose Lake2003600 acres
  • Zion2003450 acres
  • Grassy Knob2010409 acres

Fires near a city in Illinois

Chicago

Nearby states

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