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Fires Near Helena, MT

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

13
Fires within 100 mi
76 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
11
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Helena, MT

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • Wind at the Camp Creek fire (76 mi away) is blowing 8 mph SE, roughly toward your location.
There are currently 88 active fires within 300 miles of Helena, MT, including 2 within 25 miles and 13 within 100 miles. None are inside Helena city limits. The most significant is the Sand Creek fire, 94 miles away at 35,520 acres, 83% contained. Wind at the Camp Creek fire is blowing 8 mph SE, roughly toward Helena, MT. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Helena, MT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Helena monitor 5 miles away is good (AQI 11).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 96 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 18 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

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

Evacuation status

Montana 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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no fires
≤ 25 mi
2
10 acres
≤ 50 mi
3
11 acres
≤ 100 mi
13
66K acres
≤ 200 mi
48
106K acres
≤ 300 mi
88
251K acres

This season vs the last decade

83% of an average year
Burned so far in 20262.3K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.7K acres

So far in 2026, 2.3K acres have burned within 25 miles of Helena, 83% of the 2.7K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Helena, MT

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Helena

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

  1. Davis Coulee Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Cabin Springs Fire · Containment rose to 34%

    13 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Buck Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N711PB)

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Stevens Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N410TD)

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. North Trapper Fire · Official update: MTBRF Piquett Creek Planned Prescribed Burn

    28 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 83%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. Skull Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Skull Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    37 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Porcupine Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  10. North Trapper Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N101HX)

    43 hours ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near Helena

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Rice Ridge
2017
160,187 acres · 83 mi away
Maudlow/Toston
2000
81,687 acres · 54 mi away

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