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Kansas Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 32Good typical air quality, worst 51 near Cedar Bluff
Current situation

Kansas

Quiet
Large fires (1K+)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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No active wildfires are currently reported in Kansas. 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 11 monitoring stations is good (AQI 32); the worst reading right now is AQI 51 (moderate) near Cedar Bluff.
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No active fires in Kansas right now.

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

Evacuation status in Kansas

Kansas does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

193% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026184K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)95K acres

So far in 2026, 184K acres have burned in Kansas, 193% of the 95K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Kansas

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in Kansas

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2017
Worst year · 474K acres
51
Fires / year · average
669
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
248
Structures destroyed
2
Lives lost
$6.2M
Reported cost

From 369 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
474K
237K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
51K
25K
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March and April account for 74% of the acreage burned in Kansas in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
37732014: 4 fires20142015: 60 fires2016: 73 fires20162017: 66 fires2018: 68 fires20182019: 19 fires2020: 58 fires20202021: 56 fires2022: 70 fires20222023: 52 fires2024: 41 fires20242025: 42 fires2026: 60 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Kansas averaged 65K acres burned and 53 fires per year. That is 38% down in acreage and 5% 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 Kansas? 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 Kansas

  • Grassfires 306172017400,000 acres
  • Four County2021121,622 acres
  • Meade Lake202692,733 acres
  • Stanton County201112 structures destroyed40,000 acres
  • Barber County200838,400 acres

Fires near a city in Kansas

Wichita

Nearby states

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