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Fires Near Medford, OR

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

14
Fires within 100 mi
23 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
37
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Medford, OR

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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.

  • The nearest fire is 23 miles away but mostly contained.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Medford, OR in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Oregon OEM, refreshed every 5 minutes. 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 85 active fires within 300 miles of Medford, OR, including 2 within 25 miles and 14 within 100 miles. None are inside Medford city limits. The most significant is the Castle fire, 57 miles away at 3,615 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Medford, OR in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Medford Jackson Park monitor is good (AQI 37).

House pin: Medford, OR. Bold outline: Medford 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

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
2
283 acres
≤ 50 mi
3
283 acres
≤ 100 mi
14
3,930 acres
≤ 200 mi
37
128K acres
≤ 300 mi
85
404K acres

This season vs the last decade

506% of an average year
Burned so far in 202617K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)3.3K acres

So far in 2026, 17K acres have burned within 25 miles of Medford, 506% of the 3.3K 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 Medford, OR

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Medford

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

  1. Mountaineer Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    3 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Oak Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N604PG, CFR93, CFR210)

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Dukelana Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR612)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Taylor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N464DF)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Pines Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88, CFR440)

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. Iowa Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR440, CFR89, CFR88)

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. Oak Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR93)

    30 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  8. Acorn Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N429DF)

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  9. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    44 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  10. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    44 hours ago · November 9, 2026

Historic fires near Medford

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Biscuit (formerly Florence)
2002
499,570 acres · 51 mi away
Bootleg
2021
413,717 acres · 79 mi away
Chetco Bar
2017
191,125 acres · 55 mi away
Klondike
2018
175,258 acres · 50 mi away
Slater
2020
157,270 acres · 41 mi away · 2 deaths
Haypress
2021
155,752 acres · 82 mi away

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