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Louisiana Wildfires: Live Fire Map

6
Active fires
6,022
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
29
Typical air quality · worst 90 near French Settlement
Current situation

Louisiana

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
1
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Louisiana's 64 parishes, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Louisiana currently has 6 active wildfires burning a combined 6,022 acres. One of them is a large incident of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the South Line fire in Cameron County at 5,500 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. Typical air quality across the state's 23 monitoring stations is good (AQI 29); the worst reading right now is AQI 90 (moderate) near French Settlement.
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Bold outline: Louisiana boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Louisiana

Live evacuation feed coverage
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This season vs the last decade

179% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202622K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)12K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)13K acres

So far in 2026, 22K acres have burned in Louisiana, 179% of the 12K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 13K acres.

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

Active fires in Louisiana

Latest fire updates in Louisiana

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

  1. South Line Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  2. Drakes Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  3. Drakes Creek Fire · Now mapped at 349 acres

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  4. Drakes Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 20 acres (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  5. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    25 days ago · October 16, 2026

  6. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    25 days ago · October 16, 2026

  7. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    25 days ago · October 16, 2026

  8. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    25 days ago · October 16, 2026

  9. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    41 days ago · September 30, 2026

  10. Mt. Ziliah Fire · Now mapped at 150 acres

    41 days ago · September 30, 2026

Wildfire history in Louisiana

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2023
Worst year · 53K acres
75
Fires / year · average
981
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
101
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$9.1M
Reported cost

From 228 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
53K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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July and August account for 57% of the acreage burned in Louisiana in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
731462014: 44 fires20142015: 34 fires2016: 45 fires20162017: 44 fires2018: 61 fires20182019: 48 fires2020: 79 fires20202021: 78 fires2022: 95 fires20222023: 120 fires2024: 43 fires20242025: 146 fires2026: 144 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Louisiana averaged 22K acres burned and 110 fires per year. That is 150% up in acreage and 102% 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 Louisiana? 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 Louisiana

  • Unit 4-05-01200512,154 acres
  • Sisters Complex20019,000 acres
  • Pintail20148,874 acres
  • Sac A Lait20197,433 acres
  • Cottonmouth20166,385 acres

Fires near a city in Louisiana

New Orleans

Nearby states

California (120)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)Wisconsin (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)