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Montana Wildfires: Live Fire Map

10
Active fires
54K
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
33
Typical air quality · worst 80 near Thompson Falls
Current situation

Montana

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
4
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Montana's 56 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Montana currently has 10 active wildfires burning a combined 54,327 acres. 4 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Sand Creek fire in Beaverhead County at 35,520 acres, 100% contained. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Montana in the last 24 hours (1 smoke check), 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 17 monitoring stations is good (AQI 33); the worst reading right now is AQI 80 (moderate) near Thompson Falls.
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Bold outline: Montana boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Montana

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This season vs the last decade

53% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026179K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)341K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)343K acres

So far in 2026, 179K acres have burned in Montana, 53% of the 341K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 343K acres.

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

Active fires in Montana

Latest fire updates in Montana

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

  1. Birney Road Fire · New perimeter mapped at 48 acres (national perimeter feed)

    28 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  3. Bobcat Lakes Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  4. Sand Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  5. Bobcat Lakes Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  6. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    15 days ago · October 26, 2026

  7. Bras Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  8. Bras Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  9. Bras Fire · Containment rose to 45%

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

  10. Bras Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1,688 acres (national perimeter feed)

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

  11. Moose Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    22 days ago · October 19, 2026

  12. Moose Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    22 days ago · October 19, 2026

Wildfire history in Montana

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2017
Worst year · 1.3M acres
1,885
Fires / year · average
25K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
1,654
Structures destroyed
3
Lives lost
$1.9B
Reported cost

From 1,448 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1.3M
636K
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'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
143K
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July and August account for 84% of the acreage burned in Montana in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1.4K2.9K2014: 840 fires20142015: 1.7K fires2016: 1.3K fires20162017: 2.0K fires2018: 1.2K fires20182019: 1.5K fires2020: 2.3K fires20202021: 2.9K fires2022: 2.1K fires20222023: 1.7K fires2024: 2.4K fires20242025: 2.4K fires2026: 2.2K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Montana averaged 169K acres burned and 2,161 fires per year. That is 58% down in acreage and 26% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Montana? 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 Montana

  • Valley Complex2000239 structures destroyed292,070 acres
  • Lodgepole Complex201731 structures destroyed270,743 acres
  • Ash Creek201239 structures destroyed249,562 acres
  • Derby Fire200647 structures destroyed223,570 acres
  • Rosebud Creek Complex201210 structures destroyed171,444 acres

Fires near a city in Montana

BillingsMissoulaBozemanHelenaKalispell

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)