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Kentucky Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Kentucky

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Kentucky currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 0 acres. The biggest is the Reynolds Cemetery fire in Christian County at 0 acres, 100% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 29 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 23, peak 39).
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Bold outline: Kentucky boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Kentucky

Kentucky 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

84% of an average year
Burned so far in 202619K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)22K acres

So far in 2026, 19K acres have burned in Kentucky, 84% of the 22K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Reynolds Cemetery Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    9 hours ago · September 26, 2026

Wildfire history in Kentucky

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 56K acres
364
Fires / year · average
4,733
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
9.8K
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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: 778 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Kentucky averaged 29K acres burned and 799 fires per year. That is 123% up in acreage and 766% 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 (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)