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Fires Near Columbus, OH

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

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138 mi
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Columbus, OH

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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 29 active fires within 300 miles of Columbus, OH, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Columbus city limits. The most significant is the CMB - Flaxseed Road fire, 138 miles away at 61 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Columbus, OH in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Fairgrounds monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 38).

House pin: Columbus, OH. Bold outline: Columbus 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

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171 acres
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715 acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)0 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Columbus, 0% of the 0 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 Columbus, OH

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Columbus

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

  1. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Belles Fork Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Rickett Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 60 acres

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    19 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Parkers Branch Fire · Grew 27 acres in 5 hours to 30 acres

    19 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 3 hours to 40 acres

    21 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 20%

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    23 hours ago · November 9, 2026

Historic fires near Columbus

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Shawnee Complex
2009
2,865 acres · 89 mi away
Peach Orchard
2003
1,016 acres · 83 mi away
Crown City Complex
2002
706 acres · 99 mi away
Buckhorn Fire
2017
390 acres · 92 mi away
Park Cabin
2010
355 acres · 42 mi away
Wilderness
2005
332 acres · 50 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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