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Kentucky Wildfires: Live Fire Map

24
Active fires
327
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
37
Typical air quality · worst 70 near HAZ2
Current situation

Kentucky

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
11
Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Kentucky's 120 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Kentucky currently has 24 active wildfires burning a combined 327 acres. The biggest is the Bowling Fork 2 fire in Pike County at 78 acres, 100% contained. 11 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 22 monitoring stations is good (AQI 37); the worst reading right now is AQI 70 (moderate) near HAZ2.
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Bold outline: Kentucky boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Kentucky

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This season vs the last decade

106% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202619K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)18K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)22K acres

So far in 2026, 19K acres have burned in Kentucky, 106% of the 18K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 22K acres.

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

Active fires in Kentucky

Latest fire updates in Kentucky

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

  1. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    9 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Belles Fork Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Rickett Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    21 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 60 acres

    21 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    23 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Parkers Branch Fire · Grew 27 acres in 5 hours to 30 acres

    23 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 3 hours to 40 acres

    24 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 20%

    25 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  11. Ash Lick Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  12. Ash Lick Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

Wildfire history in Kentucky

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 56K acres
375
Fires / year · average
4,869
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
62
Structures destroyed
2
Lives lost
$9.2M
Reported cost

From 1,030 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
56K
28K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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October and November account for 59% of the acreage burned in Kentucky in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
6031.2K2014: 21 fires20142015: 54 fires2016: 196 fires20162017: 95 fires2018: 40 fires20182019: 196 fires2020: 52 fires20202021: 84 fires2022: 219 fires20222023: 1.2K fires2024: 1.0K fires20242025: 792 fires2026: 914 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Kentucky averaged 29K acres burned and 826 fires per year. That is 124% up in acreage and 796% 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 Kentucky? 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 Kentucky

  • Ky River Complex Fema200137,656 acres
  • Se District Complex200035,000 acres
  • Eastern Dist Complex Fema200128,988 acres
  • East District Complex199926,800 acres
  • Southeastern Dist Cmplx Fema200112,377 acres

Fires near a city in Kentucky

Louisville

Nearby states

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