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Live wildfire tracking around Bellingham: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.
Live risk assessment for Bellingham, WA
No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.
Local officials here don't publish evacuation zones to a feed we can monitor, so evacuation orders and warnings for this location won't reliably appear on FireNearby or trigger our evacuation alerts. Check your county sheriff or office of emergency services, local news, and your county's emergency alert sign-up.
The feeds we monitor show a zone active within 50 miles of Bellingham, WA:
Zone status from EmergencyInfoBC, refreshed every 5 minutes; every active zone is also shaded on the map below. Zone codes like Sumas First Nation - 37005, 36901, 36909, 36919 Kilgard Road are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. Counties only publish a zone once they activate it, so your address shows a zone code here the moment one applies to it.
House pin: Bellingham, WA. Bold outline: Bellingham city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.
This county does not publish evacuation zones to a feed we can monitor, so orders or warnings here will not appear on FireNearby. Follow the county's official emergency channels.
Orders and warnings in the 34 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.
Wind Advisory issued November 10 at 1:23PM PST until November 11 at 7:00PM PST by NWS Seattle WA
San Juan County; Lowlands of Western Whatcom County; Lowlands of Western Skagit and Northwestern Snohomish Counties; Island County
See active alerts at weather.govSource: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.
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So far in 2026, 15 acres have burned within 25 miles of Bellingham, 30% of the 50 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.
Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.
| Fire | State | County | Distance | Size | Contained | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Fire | WA | Whatcom | 48 mi | 495 acres | 100% | 14 days ago |
| V62262 Fire | BC | - | 62 mi | 833 acres | - | 42 days ago |
| V62369 Fire | BC | - | 64 mi | 0.0 acres | - | 6 days ago |
| River Fire | WA | Clallam | 67 mi | 0.1 acres | - | 32 hours ago |
| V10885 Fire | BC | - | 69 mi | 15,511 acres | - | 8 days ago |
| V10898 Fire | BC | - | 73 mi | 2,220 acres | - | 8 days ago |
| V10942 Fire | BC | - | 73 mi | 3,311 acres | - | 8 days ago |
| V10958 Fire | BC | - | 76 mi | 1,618 acres | - | 8 days ago |
| Gamma Creek Fire | WA | Snohomish | 77 mi | 29 acres | - | 8 days ago |
| Sisi Fire | WA | Chelan | 80 mi | 4,816 acres | 90% | 23 hours ago |
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Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.
Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 90%
Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%
King Fire · Containment rose to 95%
Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%
0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)
0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)
0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 43 acres in 4 hours to 243 acres
0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 160 acres in 19 hours to 200 acres
0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)
0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)
The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.
How close have major wildfires come to your home in Washington? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.
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