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Fires Near Boulder, CO

Live wildfire tracking around Boulder: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Boulder, CO

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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.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Boulder, CO in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Boulder County Emergency Management, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Boulder County; neighboring counties post notices through their own official channels. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 15 active fires within 300 miles of Boulder, CO, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Boulder city limits. The most significant is the Willow fire, 82 miles away at 7,359 acres, 92% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Boulder, CO in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Boulder - CU - 2102 Athens St. monitor is good (AQI 18).

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

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  • Alamosa
  • Arapahoe
  • Archuleta
  • Baca
  • Bent
  • Broomfield
  • Chaffee
  • Cheyenne
  • Clear Creek
  • Conejos
  • Costilla
  • Crowley
  • Custer
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  • Denver
  • Dolores
  • Eagle
  • El Paso
  • Elbert
  • Fremont
  • Garfield
  • Gilpin
  • Gunnison
  • Hinsdale
  • Huerfano
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  • Jefferson
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  • Lake
  • Las Animas
  • Lincoln
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  • Mesa
  • Mineral
  • Moffat
  • Montezuma
  • Montrose
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  • Boulder
  • Douglas
  • Grand
  • Larimer
  • Routt
5 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • Boulder County Emergency Management
  • Larimer County Emergency Management
  • Routt County Emergency Management
  • Grand County Emergency Management
  • Douglas County 911

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Fires by distance

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7,359 acres
≤ 200 mi
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161K acres
≤ 300 mi
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267K acres

This season vs the last decade

12% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026238 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.0K acres

So far in 2026, 238 acres have burned within 25 miles of Boulder, 12% of the 2.0K 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.

Active fires near Boulder, CO

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Boulder

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

  1. Snyder Fire · Grew 1,938 acres in 66 days to 30,202 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Snyder Fire · New perimeter mapped at 18,123 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  4. Slough Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  5. Aspen Acres Fire · Containment rose to 96%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  6. Ferris Fire · New perimeter mapped at 64,881 acres (national perimeter feed)

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  7. Ferris Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  8. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    21 days ago · October 20, 2026

  9. Beehive Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    22 days ago · October 19, 2026

  10. Aspen Acres Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    28 days ago · October 13, 2026

Historic fires near Boulder

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cameron Peak
2020
208,913 acres · 52 mi away
East Troublesome
2020
193,812 acres · 53 mi away · 2 deaths
Hayman
2002
137,760 acres · 67 mi away
High Park
2012
87,284 acres · 41 mi away · 1 death
Last Chance
2012
45,000 acres · 91 mi away

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