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Fires Near Bozeman, MT

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

15
Fires within 100 mi
73 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
16
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Bozeman, MT

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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 88 active fires within 300 miles of Bozeman, MT, including 2 within 25 miles and 15 within 100 miles. None are inside Bozeman city limits. The most significant is the Windmill fire, 74 miles away at 4,253 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Bozeman, MT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Bozeman EBAM monitor is good (AQI 16).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 3 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 28 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: Bozeman, MT. Bold outline: Bozeman city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

Montana 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
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
2
1 acres
≤ 50 mi
4
2 acres
≤ 100 mi
15
4,363 acres
≤ 200 mi
49
111K acres
≤ 300 mi
88
159K acres

This season vs the last decade

144% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.4K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)962 acres

So far in 2026, 1.4K acres have burned within 25 miles of Bozeman, 144% of the 962 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Bozeman, MT

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Bozeman

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

  1. Davis Coulee Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Cabin Springs Fire · Containment rose to 34%

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

    28 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 83%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. Skull Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Skull Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    37 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Porcupine Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  10. North Trapper Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N101HX)

    43 hours ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near Bozeman

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Derby Fire
2006
223,570 acres · 54 mi away
Maudlow/Toston
2000
81,687 acres · 30 mi away

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