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Maine Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 25Good air quality statewide
Current situation

Maine

Quiet
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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No active wildfires are currently reported in Maine. 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. Air quality is good across all 20 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 25, peak 29).
No active fires in Maine right now.

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

Evacuation status in Maine

Maine 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.

Is there a fire near me?

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This season vs the last decade

76% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026324 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)428 acres

So far in 2026, 324 acres have burned in Maine, 76% of the 428 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Maine

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in Maine

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 1,044 acres
490
Fires / year · average
6,369
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
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
140
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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: 655 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Maine averaged 337 acres burned and 685 fires per year. That is 14% down in acreage and 86% 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

Nearby states