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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.

8
Fires within 100 mi
56 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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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 128 active fires within 300 miles of Boise, ID, including 8 within 100 miles. None are inside Boise city limits. The most significant is the Big Grass fire, 87 miles away at 578,637 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 24).

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.

Evacuation status

Idaho 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
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0 acres
≤ 100 mi
8
686K acres
≤ 200 mi
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1.5M acres
≤ 300 mi
128
3.1M acres

This season vs the last decade

264% of an average year
Burned so far in 202621K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)8.0K acres

So far in 2026, 21K acres have burned within 25 miles of Boise, 264% of the 8.0K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Boise, ID

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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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. Second Street Fire · Grew 149 acres in 2 hours to 1,149 acres

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Second Street Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Buck Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N711PB)

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Stevens Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N410TD)

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Nine Canyon Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Shoshone Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Blue Eagle Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Shoshone Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Blue Eagle Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. North Trapper Fire · Official update: MTBRF Piquett Creek Planned Prescribed Burn

    28 hours ago · September 25, 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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