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Fires Near Banff, AB

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

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

All clear

Live risk assessment for Banff, AB

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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.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Banff, AB in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Alberta Emergency Management Agency, refreshed every 5 minutes. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 28 active fires within 300 miles of Banff, AB, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Banff city limits. The most significant is the Re2 fire, 102 miles away at 274 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Banff, AB in the past 12 hours.
Air quality at this location is good (AQI 36).

House pin: Banff, AB. Bold outline: Banff 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

City limits
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no fires
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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no fires
≤ 100 mi
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0 acres
≤ 200 mi
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13K acres
≤ 300 mi
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816K acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burning right now0 acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)6.2K acres

Fires currently burning within 25 miles of Banff cover 0 acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 6.2K acres here.

Source: Canadian National Fire Database, large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires near Banff, AB

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Banff

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

  1. Silver Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Silver Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Border Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  4. Upper Smith Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    15 days ago · October 26, 2026

  5. Upper Smith Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    15 days ago · October 26, 2026

  6. Parker Lake Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    15 days ago · October 26, 2026

  7. Parker Lake Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    15 days ago · October 26, 2026

  8. Bras Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  9. Bras Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  10. Bras Fire · Containment rose to 45%

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

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