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Mississippi Wildfires: Live Fire Map

14
Active fires
2,961
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
56
Typical air quality · worst 87 near PASCAGOULA
Current situation

Mississippi

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Mississippi's 82 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Mississippi currently has 14 active wildfires burning a combined 2,961 acres. The biggest is the Range 47B fire in Forrest County at 800 acres, 100% contained. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Mississippi 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 9 monitoring stations is moderate (AQI 56); the worst reading right now is AQI 87 (moderate) near PASCAGOULA.
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Bold outline: Mississippi boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Mississippi

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This season vs the last decade

215% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202652K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)24K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)25K acres

So far in 2026, 52K acres have burned in Mississippi, 215% of the 24K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 25K acres.

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

Active fires in Mississippi

Latest fire updates in Mississippi

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

  1. Hwy 541 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · November 7, 2026

  2. Range 47b Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  3. Range 47b Fire · Grew 408 acres in 47 hours to 800 acres

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  4. Range 47b Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  5. Range 47b Fire · Mapped size revised down to 392 acres (from 636)

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026

  6. Cr 99 Mingo Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  7. Cr 99 Mingo Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  8. Hinds North Chapel Hill Rd Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  9. Range 47b Fire · Grew 536 acres in about an hour to 636 acres

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  10. Billy Fields Fire · Grew 58 acres in 23 hours to 98 acres

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  11. Pontotoc Pennington Rd Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  12. Pontotoc Pennington Rd Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

Wildfire history in Mississippi

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 52K acres
242
Fires / year · average
3,147
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
742
Structures destroyed
9
Lives lost
$10.6M
Reported cost

From 1,351 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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February and March account for 59% of the acreage burned in Mississippi in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
2074142014: 65 fires20142015: 240 fires2016: 255 fires20162017: 228 fires2018: 138 fires20182019: 149 fires2020: 176 fires20202021: 150 fires2022: 285 fires20222023: 406 fires2024: 333 fires20242025: 308 fires2026: 414 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Mississippi averaged 42K acres burned and 349 fires per year. That is 205% up in acreage and 99% 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 Mississippi? 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 Mississippi

  • The Crippled Chinook20105,717 acres
  • White Dog20055,300 acres
  • Grand Bature20164,248 acres
  • Bacon Branch20063,500 acres
  • Ditch Cricket20173,180 acres

Fires near a city in Mississippi

Jackson

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)Wisconsin (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)