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Massachusetts Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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

Massachusetts

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Massachusetts's 14 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Massachusetts currently has 2 active wildfires burning a combined 4 acres. The biggest is the Veterans Memorial fire in Plymouth County at 4 acres. 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 27 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 25, peak 31).
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Bold outline: Massachusetts boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Massachusetts

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This season vs the last decade

80% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026856 acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)1.1K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.4K acres

So far in 2026, 856 acres have burned in Massachusetts, 80% of the 1.1K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 1.4K acres.

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

Active fires in Massachusetts

Wildfire history in Massachusetts

All reported wildfires since 2015, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 4,603 acres
518
Fires / year · average
5,693
Total fires · since 2015
Acres burned by year
4,603
2,302
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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March through May account for 52% of the acreage burned in Massachusetts in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
6531.3K2015: 4 fires20152016: 5 fires2017: 1 fires20172019: 1 fires2020: 5 fires20202021: 8 fires2022: 1.2K fires20222023: 1.2K fires2024: 1.3K fires20242025: 1.2K fires2026: 825 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Massachusetts averaged 1,875 acres burned and 1,134 fires per year. That is 453% up in acreage and 28245% up in fire count versus the 2015–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

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

  • The Range2005800 acres
  • Oscar Range2008700 acres
  • Delta2006650 acres
  • Curry Range Fire2007450 acres
  • Zulu Range Fire2015344 acres

Fires near a city in Massachusetts

Boston

Nearby states

California (122)Oregon (43)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Texas (24)Kentucky (23)