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Fires Near Carson City, NV

Live wildfire tracking around Carson City: 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
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Carson City, NV

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There is meaningful fire activity near this location. This area has no live evacuation feed, so check your county's official emergency channels for any notices. Pack essentials, plan an evacuation route, and check official updates at least hourly.

  • An active fire is only 5 miles away and under 50% contained.
There are currently 133 active fires within 300 miles of Carson City, NV, including 2 within 25 miles and 23 within 100 miles. 1 of them is inside Carson City city limits, covering 25 acres. The most significant is the Stallion fire, 48 miles away at 40,691 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Carson City, NV in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the CC_Armory monitor is good (AQI 13).

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

Evacuation status

Nevada 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
1
25 acres
≤ 25 mi
2
647 acres
≤ 50 mi
4
56K acres
≤ 100 mi
23
57K acres
≤ 200 mi
73
134K acres
≤ 300 mi
133
1.0M acres

This season vs the last decade

16% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.1K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.6K acres

So far in 2026, 1.1K acres have burned within 25 miles of Carson City, 16% of the 6.6K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Carson City, NV

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Carson City

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

  1. Dome Fire · Grew 228 acres in 24 hours to 4,361 acres

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Highland Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Highland Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Timber Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25,341 acres (from 25,513)

    15 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Irish Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR91, CFR658)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Harvey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Goni Fire · Grew 22 acres in about an hour to 25 acres

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Goni Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N721HT)

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Grade 2 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Timber Fire · Evacuation status lifted for zone MRY-F028-B

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Carson City

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Dixie
2021
963,309 acres · 99 mi away
North Complex
2020
318,935 acres · 89 mi away · 16 deaths
Caldor
2021
221,835 acres · 53 mi away
Sugar
2021
105,076 acres · 56 mi away

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