LIVE · updated

Maine Wildfires: Live Fire Map

1
Active fires
0
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
21
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Maine

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Maine's 16 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Maine currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 0 acres. The biggest is the Couch fire in Aroostook County at 0 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 14 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 21, peak 37).
New to fire terms?What containment meansRed Flag Warnings explained

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

Evacuation status in Maine

Live evacuation feed coverage
0of 16 counties
No live feed

Maine has no live evacuation feed FireNearby can monitor, so orders and warnings will not appear on this site. Check your county's official emergency channels and the emergency resources below.

iPhone app

Maine wildfire alerts on your iPhone

Save your address for alerts on new fires, rapid growth, red flag warnings, and evacuation orders across Maine. With Pro, Fire Nearby calls your phone when an order covers your address.

  • Evacuation order alerts
  • Calls and texts with Pro
  • Lock Screen tracking
Download on theApp StoreSee the app

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

91% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026381 acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)420 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)428 acres

So far in 2026, 381 acres have burned in Maine, 91% of the 420 acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 428 acres.

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

Active fires in Maine

Wildfire history in Maine

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 1,044 acres
501
Fires / year · average
6,514
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
2
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$290K
Reported cost

From 8 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1,044
522
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
140
70
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

April and May account for 64% of the acreage burned in Maine in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
5791.2K2014: 1 fires20142015: 6 fires2016: 602 fires20162017: 512 fires2018: 7 fires20182019: 5 fires2020: 1.2K fires20202021: 654 fires2022: 758 fires20222023: 502 fires2024: 655 fires20242025: 855 fires2026: 800 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Maine averaged 348 acres burned and 714 fires per year. That is 11% down in acreage and 94% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Maine? 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 Maine

  • Centerville Fire2006550 acres
  • Addison2001500 acres
  • Tri City2018314 acres
  • May Mountain Fire2020236 acres
  • Boot Cove Fire2015206 acres

Fires near a city in Maine

Portland

Nearby states

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