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Minnesota Wildfires: Live Fire Map

28
Active fires
436
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
38
Typical air quality · worst 61 near St. Michael
Current situation

Minnesota

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
0
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in the 3 Minnesota counties with a live evacuation feed. 84 of its 87 counties have no feed, so orders or warnings there will not appear here. See which counties are covered below.
Minnesota currently has 28 active wildfires burning a combined 436 acres. The biggest is the Stewart Trail fire in Lake County at 375 acres, 100% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Minnesota 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 28 monitoring stations is good (AQI 38); the worst reading right now is AQI 61 (moderate) near St. Michael.
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Bold outline: Minnesota boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Minnesota

Live evacuation feed coverage
3of 87 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 84 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed84
  • Aitkin
  • Anoka
  • Becker
  • Beltrami
  • Benton
  • Big Stone
  • Blue Earth
  • Brown
  • Carlton
  • Carver
  • Cass
  • Chippewa
  • Chisago
  • Clay
  • Clearwater
  • Cottonwood
  • Crow Wing
  • Dakota
  • Dodge
  • Douglas
  • Faribault
  • Fillmore
  • Freeborn
  • Goodhue
  • Grant
  • Hennepin
  • Houston
  • Hubbard
  • Isanti
  • Itasca
  • Jackson
  • Kanabec
  • Kandiyohi
  • Kittson
  • Koochiching
  • Lac qui Parle
  • Lake of the Woods
  • Le Sueur
  • Lincoln
  • Lyon
Live feed3
  • Cook
  • Lake
  • St. Louis
3 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • St. Louis County Emergency Management
  • Lake County Emergency Management
  • Cook County Emergency Management

No zone in these feeds is under an evacuation order or warning right now. If one is issued, it will appear here and on the map above.

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This season vs the last decade

519% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202689K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)17K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)17K acres

So far in 2026, 89K acres have burned in Minnesota, 519% of the 17K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 17K acres.

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

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. Stewart Trail Fire · New perimeter mapped at 356 acres (national perimeter feed)

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  2. Stewart Trail Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

Wildfire history in Minnesota

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 89K acres
881
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
45K
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'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
5.1K
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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: 735 fires20222023: 850 fires2024: 1.1K fires20242025: 1.4K fires2026: 1.2K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Minnesota averaged 33K acres burned and 1,069 fires per year. That is 127% up in acreage and 40% 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 (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (29)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)Texas (24)