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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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Fires within 100 mi
26 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Birmingham, AL

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • The nearest fire is 26 miles away.
There are currently 24 active fires within 300 miles of Birmingham, AL, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Birmingham city limits. The most significant is the Oak Ridge Road fire, 62 miles away at 190 acres, 95% 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 moderate (AQI 54).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 39 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 2 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

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.

Evacuation status

Alabama 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.

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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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120 acres
≤ 100 mi
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336 acres
≤ 200 mi
13
1,510 acres
≤ 300 mi
24
2,415 acres

This season vs the last decade

473% of an average year
Burned so far in 20262.6K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)549 acres

So far in 2026, 2.6K acres have burned within 25 miles of Birmingham, 473% of the 549 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Reynolds Cemetery Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    9 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Carroll- Cr 62 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Merit Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  4. Merit Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Merit Creek Fire · Grew 827 acres in about an hour to 828 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  6. Merit Creek Fire · Grew 799 acres in 10 hours to 800 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  7. Merit Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  8. Hardeman - Newcastle Drive Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Hardeman - Newcastle Drive Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  10. Tishomingo Cr 27 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 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

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