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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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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Boulder, CO

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Boulder, CO. 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 53 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 7,389 acres, 80% 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 14).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 3 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 11 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

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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Fires by distance

City limits
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7,389 acres
≤ 200 mi
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164K acres
≤ 300 mi
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199K acres

This season vs the last decade

11% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026230 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.0K acres

So far in 2026, 230 acres have burned within 25 miles of Boulder, 11% of the 2.0K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Cabin Springs Fire · Containment rose to 34%

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Basura Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N751BR)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Aspen Acres Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N3804C)

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 74%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  6. Cabin Springs Fire · New perimeter mapped at 131 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  7. Cabin Springs Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 40 acres

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  8. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 84%

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  9. Pugsley Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  10. Rim Run Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (TKR806, TKR893)

    3 days ago · September 22, 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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