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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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Air quality · Moderate

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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 32 active fires within 300 miles of Milwaukee, WI, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Milwaukee city limits. The most significant is the Tower fire, 192 miles away at 11 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Milwaukee, WI in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Milwaukee College Ave-Near Road monitor 8 miles away is moderate (AQI 53).

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.

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Fires by distance

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1,516 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.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

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

    35 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Ridge Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  4. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  5. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  6. Black River Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  7. Lynx Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  8. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  9. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  10. Sand Lake Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · October 24, 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
Rock Co. Fire
2016
500 acres · 81 mi away
Deansville
2003
500 acres · 72 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.