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Fires Near Billings, MT

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

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Billings, MT

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 41 miles away.
There are currently 14 active fires within 300 miles of Billings, MT, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Billings city limits. The most significant is the Pk fire, 94 miles away at 1,645 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Billings, MT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Billings monitor 4 miles away is good (AQI 41).

House pin: Billings, MT. Bold outline: Billings 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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100 acres
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1,747 acres
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2,628 acres
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55K acres

This season vs the last decade

31% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026901 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)3.0K acres

So far in 2026, 901 acres have burned within 25 miles of Billings, 31% of the 3.0K 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 Billings, MT

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Latest updates on fires near Billings

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

  1. Birney Road Fire · New perimeter mapped at 48 acres (national perimeter feed)

    25 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Foot Creek Fire · Containment dropped to 36% (from 41%)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  3. Foot Creek Fire · Grew 151 acres in 24 hours to 683 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  4. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 535 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · November 7, 2026

  5. Pk Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  6. Pk Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  7. Foot Creek Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Foot Creek

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  8. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 410 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  9. Foot Creek Fire · Now mapped at 100 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  10. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

Historic fires near Billings

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Ash Creek
2012
249,562 acres · 98 mi away
Derby Fire
2006
223,570 acres · 71 mi away
Richard Spring
2021
171,130 acres · 83 mi away
Pine Ridge Complex
2006
121,210 acres · 32 mi away
Dunn Mtn. Assist
2008
102,383 acres · 63 mi away
Elk
2024
98,352 acres · 77 mi away

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