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Minnesota Wildfires: Live Fire Map

16
Active fires
70K
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
28
Typical air quality · worst 52 near Rochester
Current situation

Minnesota

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
4
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in St. Louis and Lake and Cook Counties, the state's counties with live zone feeds. Other counties post notices through their own official channels.
Minnesota currently has 16 active wildfires burning a combined 69,795 acres. 4 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Bear Trap fire in St. Louis County at 30,804 acres, 100% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 34 monitoring stations is good (AQI 28); the worst reading right now is AQI 52 (moderate) near Rochester.
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Bold outline: Minnesota boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Minnesota

No zones are under an evacuation order or warning in Minnesota right now. Live zone status from St. Louis County Emergency Management and Lake County Emergency Management and Cook County Emergency Management, refreshed every 5 minutes; if an order or warning is issued it will appear here and shaded on the map above. Live coverage in Minnesota is limited to St. Louis and Lake and Cook Counties; other counties post notices through their own official channels.

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

512% of an average year
Burned so far in 202689K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)17K acres

So far in 2026, 89K acres have burned in Minnesota, 512% of the 17K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Minnesota

Latest fire updates in Minnesota

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

  1. Ridge Fire · Official update: MNSUF 2026 Superior National Forest Planned Prescribed FireMNSUF

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  2. Bear Trap Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  3. Sioux Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  4. Wolfpack Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  5. Thumb Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  6. Dark Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  7. Bear Trap Fire · New perimeter mapped at 30,804 acres (national perimeter feed)

    22 days ago · September 3, 2026

  8. Bear Trap Fire · Containment rose to 97%

    25 days ago · August 31, 2026

  9. Thumb Fire · Containment rose to 97%

    25 days ago · August 31, 2026

  10. Sioux Fire · Containment rose to 97%

    25 days ago · August 31, 2026

  11. Thumb Fire · New perimeter mapped at 25,015 acres (national perimeter feed)

    25 days ago · August 31, 2026

  12. Sioux Fire · New perimeter mapped at 6,833 acres (national perimeter feed)

    26 days ago · August 30, 2026

Wildfire history in Minnesota

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 89K acres
873
Fires / year · average
11K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
571
Structures destroyed
7
Lives lost
$79.9M
Reported cost

From 616 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
89K
44K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
5.1K
2.5K
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April and May account for 57% of the acreage burned in Minnesota in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1.1K2.1K2014: 114 fires20142015: 631 fires2016: 635 fires20162017: 463 fires2018: 550 fires20182019: 1.0K fires2020: 564 fires20202021: 2.1K fires2022: 734 fires20222023: 852 fires2024: 1.1K fires20242025: 1.4K fires2026: 1.1K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Minnesota averaged 33K acres burned and 1,050 fires per year. That is 126% up in acreage and 38% 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 Minnesota? 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 Minnesota

  • Pagami Creek20112 structures destroyed92,193 acres
  • Ham Lake2007133 structures destroyed36,443 acres
  • Red Lake 257200334,560 acres
  • Cavity Lake Fire200631,830 acres
  • Juneberry 3201131,216 acres

Fires near a city in Minnesota

Minneapolis

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)