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Fires Near Amarillo, TX

Live wildfire tracking around Amarillo: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

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Fires within 100 mi
72 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Amarillo, TX

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 124 active fires within 300 miles of Amarillo, TX, including 7 within 100 miles. None are inside Amarillo city limits. The most significant is the Old 66 fire, 82 miles away at 3,668 acres, 99% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Amarillo, TX in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Amarillo 24th Ave C1025 monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 18).

House pin: Amarillo, TX. Bold outline: Amarillo city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

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

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Fires by distance

City limits
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7
3,970 acres
≤ 200 mi
65
31K acres
≤ 300 mi
124
157K acres

This season vs the last decade

433% of an average year
Burned so far in 202645K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)10K acres

So far in 2026, 45K acres have burned within 25 miles of Amarillo, 433% of the 10K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Amarillo, TX

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Amarillo

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

  1. Seven R Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    9 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Seven R Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    10 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Lightning Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Seven R Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Seven R Fire · Mapped size revised down to 64 acres (from 100)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Aspen Acres Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N3804C)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Dinner Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    20 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Lightning Creek Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    37 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  10. Bitter Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 113 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near Amarillo

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Smokehouse Creek
2024
1,054,153 acres · 49 mi away
East Amarillo Complex
2006
907,245 acres · 51 mi away · 11 deaths
Perryton
2017
318,156 acres · 94 mi away · 1 death
Windy Deuce
2024
143,302 acres · 28 mi away
Lefors East
2017
135,000 acres · 73 mi away · 3 deaths

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