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Fires Near Cheyenne, WY

Live wildfire tracking around Cheyenne: 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
62 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Cheyenne, WY

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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 40 active fires within 300 miles of Cheyenne, WY, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Cheyenne city limits. The most significant is the Moonshine fire, 62 miles away at 7,325 acres, 74% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Cheyenne, WY in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Cheyenne NCore monitor 4 miles away is good (AQI 28).

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

Evacuation status

Wyoming 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
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≤ 50 mi
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≤ 100 mi
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7,325 acres
≤ 200 mi
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21K acres
≤ 300 mi
40
185K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 20263 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.8K acres

So far in 2026, 3 acres have burned within 25 miles of Cheyenne, <1% of the 1.8K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Cheyenne, WY

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Cheyenne

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. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 74%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

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

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

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

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  7. Fairpoint Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  8. Duhamel Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    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. Cow Camp Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026

Historic fires near Cheyenne

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cameron Peak
2020
208,913 acres · 66 mi away
East Troublesome
2020
193,812 acres · 99 mi away · 2 deaths
Mullen
2020
176,878 acres · 83 mi away
Arapaho
2012
98,115 acres · 81 mi away
High Park
2012
87,284 acres · 49 mi away · 1 death

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