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Fires Near Fort Collins, CO

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

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Live risk assessment for Fort Collins, 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.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Fort Collins, CO in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Larimer County Emergency Management, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Larimer County; neighboring counties post notices through their own official channels. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 14 active fires within 300 miles of Fort Collins, CO. None are inside Fort Collins city limits. The most significant is the Willow fire, 118 miles away at 7,359 acres, 92% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Fort Collins, CO in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Ft. Collins - CSU Facilities monitor is good (AQI 33).

House pin: Fort Collins, CO. Bold outline: Fort Collins 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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114K acres
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266K acres

This season vs the last decade

8% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026120 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.6K acres

So far in 2026, 120 acres have burned within 25 miles of Fort Collins, 8% of the 1.6K 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 Fort Collins, CO

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Latest updates on fires near Fort Collins

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

  1. Foot Creek Fire · Containment dropped to 36% (from 41%)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  2. Foot Creek Fire · Grew 151 acres in 24 hours to 683 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  3. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 535 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · November 7, 2026

  4. Foot Creek Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Foot Creek

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  5. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 410 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  6. Foot Creek Fire · Now mapped at 100 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  7. Snyder Fire · Grew 1,938 acres in 66 days to 30,202 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  8. Snyder Fire · New perimeter mapped at 18,123 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  9. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  10. Slough Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

Historic fires near Fort Collins

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cameron Peak
2020
208,913 acres · 42 mi away
East Troublesome
2020
193,812 acres · 67 mi away · 2 deaths
Mullen
2020
176,878 acres · 81 mi away
High Park
2012
87,284 acres · 17 mi away · 1 death
Last Chance
2012
45,000 acres · 98 mi away

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