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Michigan Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
1,464
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
43
Typical air quality · worst 180 near Port Huron
Current situation

Michigan

Normal activity
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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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Michigan's 83 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Michigan currently has 3 active wildfires burning a combined 1,464 acres. The biggest is the Craig Lake 1 fire in Baraga County at 606 acres, 100% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 28 monitoring stations is good (AQI 43); the worst reading right now is AQI 180 (unhealthy) near Port Huron.
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Bold outline: Michigan boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Michigan

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This season vs the last decade

135% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20262.7K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)2.0K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.0K acres

So far in 2026, 2.7K acres have burned in Michigan, 135% of the 2.0K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 2.0K acres.

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

Active fires in Michigan

Latest fire updates in Michigan

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

  1. Ridge Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  3. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  4. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  5. Black River Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  6. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  7. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  8. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  9. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  10. Black River Fire · New perimeter mapped at 326 acres (national perimeter feed)

    22 days ago · October 20, 2026

  11. Ridge Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

  12. Ridge Fire · New perimeter mapped at 466 acres (national perimeter feed)

    24 days ago · October 17, 2026

Wildfire history in Michigan

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2021
Worst year · 7,861 acres
240
Fires / year · average
3,126
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
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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: 391 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Michigan averaged 2,597 acres burned and 402 fires per year. That is 90% up in acreage and 189% 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 (119)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)Wisconsin (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)