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Missouri Wildfires: Live Fire Map

2
Active fires
397
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
22
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Missouri

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Missouri currently has 2 active wildfires burning a combined 397 acres. The biggest is the Tabor fire in Howell County at 393 acres, 100% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 31 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 22, peak 41).

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

Evacuation status in Missouri

Missouri does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

98% of an average year
Burned so far in 20267.6K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)7.8K acres

So far in 2026, 7.6K acres have burned in Missouri, 98% of the 7.8K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Tabor Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026
  2. Tabor Fire · Grew 93 acres in 17 hours to 393 acres

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026
  3. Tabor Fire · Containment rose to 99%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026
  4. Turner 2 Fire · New perimeter mapped at 5 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · September 21, 2026
  5. Tabor Fire · Grew 150 acres in 10 hours to 300 acres

    5 days ago · September 21, 2026
  6. Tabor Fire · Grew 20 acres in 14 hours to 150 acres

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026
  7. Tabor Fire · Containment dropped to 4% (from 99%)

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026
  8. Tabor Fire · Grew 120 acres in 2 hours to 130 acres

    6 days ago · September 19, 2026

Wildfire history in Missouri

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 13K acres
129
Fires / year · average
1,676
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
'15
'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: 135 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Missouri averaged 9,411 acres burned and 155 fires per year. That is 74% 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 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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