LIVE · updated

Fires Near Louisville, KY

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

1
Fires within 100 mi
129 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
30
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Louisville, KY

Live

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 31 active fires within 300 miles of Louisville, KY, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Louisville city limits. The most significant is the CMB - Flaxseed Road fire, 129 miles away at 61 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Louisville, KY in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Jeffersonville - Bates-Bowyer Av monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 30).

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

No evacuation feed for this area

Local officials here don't publish evacuation zones to a feed we can monitor, so evacuation orders and warnings for this location won't reliably appear on FireNearby or trigger our evacuation alerts. Check your county sheriff or office of emergency services, local news, and your county's emergency alert sign-up.

Evacuation feed coverage in Kentucky

Live evacuation feed coverage
0of 120 counties
No live feed

Kentucky has no live evacuation feed FireNearby can monitor, so orders and warnings will not appear on this site. Check your county's official emergency channels and the emergency resources below.

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

Fires by distance

City limits
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
0
no fires
≤ 50 mi
1
1 acres
≤ 100 mi
1
1 acres
≤ 200 mi
28
637 acres
≤ 300 mi
31
823 acres

This season vs the last decade

186% of an average year
Burned so far in 202614 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)7 acres

So far in 2026, 14 acres have burned within 25 miles of Louisville, 186% of the 7 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 Louisville, KY

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

Want the whole state? See the live Kentucky wildfire map →

iPhone app

Get evacuation alerts for Louisville

Fire Nearby watches Louisville around the clock and alerts you the moment an official evacuation order covers your address. With Pro, your phone rings, even on silent.

  • Evacuation order alerts
  • Calls and texts with Pro
  • New fires near you
Download on theApp StoreSee the app

Latest updates on fires near Louisville

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

  1. Tipton - Pisgah Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Belles Fork Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Rickett Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 60 acres

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Parkers Branch Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    19 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. Parkers Branch Fire · Grew 27 acres in 5 hours to 30 acres

    19 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. Rickett Hollow Fire · Grew 20 acres in 3 hours to 40 acres

    21 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. Belles Fork Road Fire · Containment rose to 20%

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Historic fires near Louisville

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Coyote Fire
2007
1,549 acres · 77 mi away
Blackhawk Fire
2010
870 acres · 55 mi away
Tracer Fire
2010
450 acres · 54 mi away
Meridian Fire
2012
418 acres · 87 mi away
Winslow Spoils
2006
365 acres · 80 mi away
Interlake Mine
2006
356 acres · 79 mi away

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Kentucky? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.