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Fires Near Fargo, ND

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

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Fargo, ND

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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 33 active fires within 300 miles of Fargo, ND. None are inside Fargo city limits. The most significant is the Wolfpack fire, 229 miles away at 6,871 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Fargo, ND in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Fargo NW monitor 5 miles away is good (AQI 22).

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

Evacuation status

North Dakota 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

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270K 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)42 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Fargo, 0% of the 42 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Fargo, ND

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Fargo

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

  1. Ridge Fire · Official update: MNSUF 2026 Superior National Forest Planned Prescribed FireMNSUF

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  2. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  3. Van Meter Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  4. Four Corner Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  5. Van Meter Fire · Grew 791 acres in 3 hours to 1,091 acres

    17 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Bear Trap Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  7. Four Corner Fire · Now mapped at 665 acres

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  8. Van Meter Fire · Now mapped at 300 acres

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  9. Sioux Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  10. Wolfpack Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Historic fires near Fargo

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Canada Fire
2003
15,000 acres · 90 mi away
Red Lake 468
2002
8,480 acres · 94 mi away

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