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Missouri Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
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Acres
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Under 50% contained
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Typical air quality · worst 79 near Branch Street
Current situation

Missouri

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Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Missouri's 115 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Missouri currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 9 acres. The biggest is the Lewis fire in Shannon County at 9 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 14 monitoring stations is moderate (AQI 56); the worst reading right now is AQI 79 (moderate) near Branch Street.

Bold outline: Missouri boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Missouri

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This season vs the last decade

125% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20268.1K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)6.5K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)7.8K acres

So far in 2026, 8.1K acres have burned in Missouri, 125% of the 6.5K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 7.8K acres.

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

Active fires in Missouri

Latest fire updates in Missouri

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

  1. Lewis Fire · New perimeter mapped at 9 acres (national perimeter feed)

    10 days ago · October 31, 2026

Wildfire history in Missouri

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 13K acres
130
Fires / year · average
1,692
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
144
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$4.8M
Reported cost

From 540 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
13K
6,733
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'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
2.3K
1.2K
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March and April account for 55% of the acreage burned in Missouri in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
991982014: 7 fires20142015: 83 fires2016: 166 fires20162017: 188 fires2018: 114 fires20182019: 73 fires2020: 121 fires20202021: 148 fires2022: 145 fires20222023: 137 fires2024: 198 fires20242025: 161 fires2026: 151 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Missouri averaged 9,505 acres burned and 158 fires per year. That is 76% up in acreage and 41% 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 Missouri? 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 Missouri

  • Lake Of The Ozarks Complex200034 structures destroyed6,500 acres
  • Minninghaw20114,700 acres
  • Mud Pond20113,533 acres
  • Big Spring Fire20063,500 acres
  • Mckenzie Hill20051 structure destroyed3,422 acres

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