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Michigan Wildfires: Live Fire Map

5
Active fires
1
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
22
Typical air quality · worst 57 near Holland
Current situation

Michigan

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
0
Michigan currently has 5 active wildfires burning a combined 1 acres. The biggest is the Hay fire in Delta County at 0 acres. 2 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Michigan in the last 24 hours (1 treated as wildfire), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 39 monitoring stations is good (AQI 22); the worst reading right now is AQI 57 (moderate) near Holland.
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Bold outline: Michigan boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Michigan

Michigan 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

59% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.2K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.0K acres

So far in 2026, 1.2K acres have burned in Michigan, 59% of the 2.0K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Michigan

Wildfire history in Michigan

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2021
Worst year · 7,861 acres
237
Fires / year · average
3,078
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
380
Structures destroyed
2
Lives lost
$17.3M
Reported cost

From 111 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
7,861
3,931
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'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
711
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April and May account for 63% of the acreage burned in Michigan in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
2585152014: 66 fires20142015: 169 fires2016: 119 fires20162017: 81 fires2018: 140 fires20182019: 138 fires2020: 226 fires20202021: 175 fires2022: 176 fires20222023: 469 fires2024: 461 fires20242025: 515 fires2026: 343 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Michigan averaged 2,290 acres burned and 393 fires per year. That is 67% up in acreage and 182% 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 Michigan? 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 Michigan

  • Duck Lake2012112 structures destroyed21,112 acres
  • Sleeper Lake20078 structures destroyed18,185 acres
  • Meridian Boundary Complex201068 structures destroyed8,586 acres
  • Hughes Lake Fire200623 structures destroyed5,817 acres
  • No Pablo20005,200 acres

Fires near a city in Michigan

Detroit

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (112)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (62)Montana (59)