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Fires Near Boston, MA

Live wildfire tracking around Boston: 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
116 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Boston, MA

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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 5 active fires within 300 miles of Boston, MA, including 1 within 25 miles and 2 within 100 miles. None are inside Boston city limits. The most significant is the Cherry Plain fire, 116 miles away at 251 acres, 99% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Boston, MA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Boston - Chinatown monitor is good (AQI 32).

House pin: Boston, MA. Bold outline: Boston 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

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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4 acres
≤ 50 mi
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4 acres
≤ 100 mi
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4 acres
≤ 200 mi
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1,076 acres
≤ 300 mi
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1,137 acres

This season vs the last decade

34% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026118 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)349 acres

So far in 2026, 118 acres have burned within 25 miles of Boston, 34% of the 349 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 Boston, MA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Boston

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

  1. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 53%

    27 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 29%

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  3. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 20%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  4. Gorge Road Fire · Grew 60 acres in about an hour to 61 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  5. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped at 856 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  6. Wild River Fire · Grew 697 acres in 43 hours to 982 acres

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  7. Wild River Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Wild River

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  8. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  9. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  10. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

Historic fires near Boston

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

The Range
2005
800 acres · 31 mi away
Oscar Range
2008
700 acres · 31 mi away
Delta
2006
650 acres · 43 mi away
Curry Range Fire
2007
450 acres · 43 mi away
Zulu Range Fire
2015
344 acres · 32 mi away
Tekoa Mtn
2010
321 acres · 91 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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