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Fires Near Birmingham, AL

Live wildfire tracking around Birmingham: 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 Birmingham, AL

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 43 miles away.
There are currently 36 active fires within 300 miles of Birmingham, AL, including 4 within 100 miles. None are inside Birmingham city limits. The most significant is the Hollis Head Road fire, 94 miles away at 161 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Birmingham, AL in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the NO. BHAM monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 23).

House pin: Birmingham, AL. Bold outline: Birmingham 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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13 acres
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297 acres
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915 acres
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3,866 acres

This season vs the last decade

524% of an average year
Burned so far in 20262.9K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)549 acres

So far in 2026, 2.9K acres have burned within 25 miles of Birmingham, 524% of the 549 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 Birmingham, AL

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Birmingham

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

  1. Tipton - Pisgah Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    9 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Rickett Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 60 acres

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    24 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Parkers Branch Fire · Grew 27 acres in 5 hours to 30 acres

    24 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 3 hours to 40 acres

    25 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. Ga Highway 120 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    27 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  10. Campbell - Glassman Way Fire · Containment rose to 65%

    28 hours ago · November 9, 2026

Historic fires near Birmingham

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Mud Creek Fire
2011
3,000 acres · 19 mi away
Mt Weisner 2011
2011
2,900 acres · 73 mi away
Pentecost
2007
2,800 acres · 73 mi away
Ok 426 B
2019
2,590 acres · 52 mi away
Pelham Range Fire
2014
2,500 acres · 54 mi away
Lake Chinnabee
2016
2,152 acres · 54 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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