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Fires Near Grand Junction, CO

Live wildfire tracking around Grand Junction: 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
77 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Grand Junction, 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 66 active fires within 300 miles of Grand Junction, CO, including 1 within 25 miles and 8 within 100 miles. None are inside Grand Junction city limits. The most significant is the Gold Mountain fire, 84 miles away at 39,747 acres, 92% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Grand Junction, CO in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Palisade Ozone monitor 14 miles away is good (AQI 19).

House pin: Grand Junction, CO. Bold outline: Grand Junction 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

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52K acres
≤ 200 mi
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63K acres
≤ 300 mi
66
482K acres

This season vs the last decade

3% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026411 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)15K acres

So far in 2026, 411 acres have burned within 25 miles of Grand Junction, 3% of the 15K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Grand Junction, CO

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Grand Junction

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. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 74%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Mm17 I15 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    42 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  6. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 84%

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  8. Tusas Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  9. Swiss Roll Fire · Containment rose to 36%

    6 days ago · September 20, 2026

  10. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 61%

    7 days ago · September 18, 2026

Historic fires near Grand Junction

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Pine Gulch
2020
139,007 acres · 19 mi away
Lee
2025
137,758 acres · 34 mi away
Rattle Complex
2002
94,519 acres · 70 mi away
Ferris
2026
64,881 acres · 97 mi away

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