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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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Fires within 100 mi
156 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

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 36 active fires within 300 miles of Bismarck, ND, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Bismarck city limits. The most significant is the Four Corner fire, 156 miles away at 665 acres, 100% contained. 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 14).

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.

Evacuation status

North Dakota 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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≤ 200 mi
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20K acres
≤ 300 mi
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42K 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.

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. Crow Head Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Fairpoint Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  3. Duhamel Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  4. Needles Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · September 19, 2026

  5. Needles Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  6. Campbell Divide Fire · New perimeter mapped at 15 acres (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  7. Box Fire · Mapped size revised down to 20 acres (from 30)

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  8. Pine Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  9. Phennock Creek Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25 acres (from 50)

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

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

    12 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
Lightning Complex
2006
11,000 acres · 86 mi away
Mound City
2011
11,000 acres · 82 mi away
Cannon Ball
2015
5,000 acres · 31 mi away
Mcclean Bottoms
2003
4,500 acres · 16 mi away

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