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Fires Near Milwaukee, WI

Live wildfire tracking around Milwaukee: 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
236 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Milwaukee, WI

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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 24 active fires within 300 miles of Milwaukee, WI, including 2 within 100 miles. None are inside Milwaukee city limits. The most significant is the Bog fire, 236 miles away at 94 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Milwaukee, WI in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Milwaukee 16th Street monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 6).

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

Evacuation status

Wisconsin 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
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0 acres
≤ 200 mi
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6 acres
≤ 300 mi
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108 acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)23 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Milwaukee, <1% of the 23 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Milwaukee, WI

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Milwaukee

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

  1. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  2. Bog Fire · New perimeter mapped at 55 acres (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  3. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped at 8 acres (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  4. Quartz Fire · New perimeter mapped at 3 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  5. Tractor Fire · New perimeter mapped at 2 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Historic fires near Milwaukee

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cold Springs Fire
2009
617 acres · 92 mi away
Crystal Lake
2003
572 acres · 98 mi away
Mullet Creek
2003
508 acres · 59 mi away
Deansville
2003
500 acres · 72 mi away
Rock Co. Fire
2016
500 acres · 81 mi away
County MM 12
2020
460 acres · 89 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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