LIVE · updated

Fires Near Baltimore, MD

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

0
Fires within 100 mi
256 mi
Nearest fire
1
Weather alerts
43
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Baltimore, MD

Live

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 4 active fires within 300 miles of Baltimore, MD. None are inside Baltimore city limits. The most significant is the Outer Dome fire, 256 miles away at 10 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Baltimore, MD in the past 12 hours.
The National Weather Service has 1 Wind Advisory in effect covering the surrounding area. Air quality measured at the Lake Montebello monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 43).

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

Evacuation status

Maryland 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.

Fires by distance

City limits
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
0
no fires
≤ 50 mi
0
no fires
≤ 100 mi
0
no fires
≤ 200 mi
1
0 acres
≤ 300 mi
4
707 acres
1 active weather alert
Wind Advisoryuntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued September 26 at 3:17AM EDT until September 26 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

Inland Worcester; Maryland Beaches; Accomack; Northampton

See active alerts at weather.gov

Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)34 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Baltimore, 0% of the 34 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Baltimore, MD

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

Want the whole state? See the live Maryland wildfire map →

Latest updates on fires near Baltimore

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

  1. Rose Bay Canal Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  2. Rose Bay Canal Fire · New perimeter mapped at 662 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

Historic fires near Baltimore

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Irish Creek
2011
2,910 acres · 73 mi away
Guinea Marsh
2007
2,537 acres · 72 mi away
Doctors Creek
2009
2,124 acres · 71 mi away
Big Timber Fire
2020
2,107 acres · 95 mi away
Savanna Lake Complex
2005
1,578 acres · 73 mi away
Railroad Fire
2014
1,535 acres · 80 mi away

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Maryland? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Other cities in Maryland

Washington