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Iowa Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 19Good typical air quality, worst 53 near Ft. Dodge, Day Park
Current situation

Iowa

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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Iowa's 99 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 Iowa. Conditions can change quickly during fire season, so the live map above stays current if anything ignites.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 13 monitoring stations is good (AQI 19); the worst reading right now is AQI 53 (moderate) near Ft. Dodge, Day Park.
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No active fires in Iowa right now.

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

Evacuation status in Iowa

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This season vs the last decade

763% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20264.7K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2019–2025)621 acres
10-year average (2019–2025, full year)643 acres

So far in 2026, 4.7K acres have burned in Iowa, 763% of the 621 acres an average year from 2019 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 643 acres.

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

Active fires in Iowa

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in Iowa

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 4,733 acres
27
Fires / year · average
349
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
1
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$46K
Reported cost

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

Acres burned by year
4,733
2,366
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
180
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March and April account for 79% of the acreage burned in Iowa in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
751492014: 4 fires20142015: 24 fires2016: 15 fires20162017: 20 fires2018: 21 fires20182019: 149 fires2020: 13 fires20202021: 12 fires2022: 10 fires20222023: 16 fires2024: 22 fires20242025: 27 fires2026: 16 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Iowa averaged 1,448 acres burned and 18 fires per year. That is 482% up in acreage and 44% down 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 Iowa? 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 Iowa

  • Green Ridge2014354 acres
  • Donar20141 structure destroyed320 acres

Fires near a city in Iowa

Des Moines

Nearby states

California (122)Oregon (43)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Texas (24)Kentucky (23)