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Fires Near Durango, CO

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

5
Fires within 100 mi
53 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Durango, CO

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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 114 active fires within 300 miles of Durango, CO, including 5 within 100 miles. None are inside Durango city limits. The most significant is the Gold Mountain fire, 54 miles away at 39,747 acres, 92% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Durango, CO in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Ute 3 monitor 12 miles away is good (AQI 17).

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

Evacuation status

Colorado 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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48K acres
≤ 200 mi
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186K acres
≤ 300 mi
114
478K acres

This season vs the last decade

5% of an average year
Burned so far in 202647 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.0K acres

So far in 2026, 47 acres have burned within 25 miles of Durango, 5% of the 1.0K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Durango, CO

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Durango

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

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

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

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

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  4. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 84%

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Flat Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Tusas Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  8. Perch Fire · New perimeter mapped at 58 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  9. Mimms Fire · New perimeter mapped at 7,093 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  10. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

Historic fires near Durango

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Missionary Ridge
2002
70,485 acres · 17 mi away · 1 death
Ferris
2026
64,881 acres · 52 mi away
416
2018
54,129 acres · 13 mi away

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