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Fires Near Asheville, NC

Live wildfire tracking around Asheville: 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
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Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Asheville, NC

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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 56 active fires within 300 miles of Asheville, NC, including 4 within 100 miles. None are inside Asheville city limits. The most significant is the White Cliffs fire, 88 miles away at 30 acres, 90% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Asheville, NC in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the BDED monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 30).

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

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Fires by distance

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55 acres
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733 acres
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1,062 acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 20266 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.1K acres

So far in 2026, 6 acres have burned within 25 miles of Asheville, <1% of the 2.1K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

Active fires near Asheville, NC

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Asheville

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

  1. Clarendon - 2026 Rogers Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Clarendon - 2026 Rogers Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Sumter - 3670 Settlement Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Sumter - 3670 Settlement Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Florence - 2434 North Old River Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Florence - 2434 North Old River Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    9 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. Belles Fork Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. Florence - 1546 Colin Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Historic fires near Asheville

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Se District Complex
2000
35,000 acres · 69 mi away
Rock Mountain
2016
24,725 acres · 72 mi away
Chimney Tops 2
2016
17,140 acres · 52 mi away · 14 deaths
Tellico
2016
13,874 acres · 61 mi away
Pinnacle Mountain
2016
10,623 acres · 41 mi away
Brushy Ridge Complex
2000
10,081 acres · 43 mi away

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