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Fires Near Boise, ID

Live wildfire tracking around Boise: 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 Boise, ID

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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 50 active fires within 300 miles of Boise, ID, including 2 within 100 miles. None are inside Boise city limits. The most significant is the East Fork fire, 62 miles away at 266 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Boise, ID in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the White Pine monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 27).

House pin: Boise, ID. Bold outline: Boise city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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Boise is in Ada CountyNo live feed

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  • Bannock
  • Bear Lake
  • Benewah
  • Bingham
  • Boise
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  • Bonneville
  • Boundary
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  • Camas
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  • Idaho
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  • Washington
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  • Blaine
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Fires by distance

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420 acres
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274K acres
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538K acres

This season vs the last decade

295% of an average year
Burned so far in 202624K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)8.0K acres

So far in 2026, 24K acres have burned within 25 miles of Boise, 295% of the 8.0K 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.

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Latest updates on fires near Boise

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

  1. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    46 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  2. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    46 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  3. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 43 acres in 4 hours to 243 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026
  4. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 160 acres in 19 hours to 200 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026
  5. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    3 days ago · November 8, 2026
  6. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    3 days ago · November 8, 2026
  7. 0927 Prospect Fire · Now mapped at 40 acres

    3 days ago · November 7, 2026
  8. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026
  9. East Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026
  10. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

Historic fires near Boise

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Big Grass
2026
578,637 acres · 89 mi away
Long Butte
2010
306,113 acres · 78 mi away
Cascade Complex
2007
302,376 acres · 77 mi away
Durkee
2024
294,266 acres · 91 mi away
Soda
2015
285,361 acres · 51 mi away
Clover
2005
192,846 acres · 76 mi away

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