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Fires Near Kansas City, MO

Live wildfire tracking around Kansas City: 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 Kansas City, MO

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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 25 active fires within 300 miles of Kansas City, MO. None are inside Kansas City city limits. The most significant is the Bison fire, 181 miles away at 889 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Kansas City, MO in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Troost monitor is good (AQI 13).

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

Evacuation status

Missouri 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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999 acres
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2,155 acres

This season vs the last decade

492% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026336 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)68 acres

So far in 2026, 336 acres have burned within 25 miles of Kansas City, 492% of the 68 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Kansas City, MO

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Kansas City

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

  1. Lake Ranch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    10 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Cedar Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Cedar Hollow Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Cedar Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    44 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Tabor Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  6. Ar State Assist Deer Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 4 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  7. Tabor Fire · Grew 93 acres in 17 hours to 393 acres

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  8. Running Fox Fire · New perimeter mapped at 6 acres (national perimeter feed)

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Tabor Fire · Containment rose to 99%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  10. Sage Fire · New perimeter mapped at 11 acres (national perimeter feed)

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

Historic fires near Kansas City

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Oaks
2005
8,000 acres · 86 mi away
White Rock Fire
2006
1,803 acres · 91 mi away

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