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Fires Near Bismarck, ND

Live wildfire tracking around Bismarck: 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 Bismarck, ND

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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.
There are currently 8 active fires within 300 miles of Bismarck, ND, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Bismarck city limits. The most significant is the Buck fire, 105 miles away at 20 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Bismarck, ND in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Bismarck Residential monitor is good (AQI 17).

House pin: Bismarck, ND. Bold outline: Bismarck 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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82 acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)718 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Bismarck, 0% of the 718 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 Bismarck, ND

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Bismarck

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)

    26 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Birney Road Fire · Mapped size revised down to 43 acres (from 60)

    58 days ago · September 14, 2026

Historic fires near Bismarck

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Kraft Complex
2002
48,000 acres · 49 mi away
Standing Rock Complex
2006
20,073 acres · 49 mi away
Mound City
2011
11,000 acres · 82 mi away
Lightning Complex
2006
11,000 acres · 86 mi away
Cannon Ball
2015
5,000 acres · 31 mi away
Mcclean Bottoms
2003
4,500 acres · 16 mi away

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