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Fires Near Missoula, MT

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

24
Fires within 100 mi
49 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Missoula, MT

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 49 miles away.
There are currently 100 active fires within 300 miles of Missoula, MT, including 24 within 100 miles. None are inside Missoula city limits. The most significant is the Sand Creek fire, 96 miles away at 35,520 acres, 83% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Missoula, MT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Missoula monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 12).

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

Evacuation status

Montana 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
≤ 25 mi
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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3,549 acres
≤ 100 mi
24
95K acres
≤ 200 mi
54
129K acres
≤ 300 mi
100
697K acres

This season vs the last decade

11% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.3K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)11K acres

So far in 2026, 1.3K acres have burned within 25 miles of Missoula, 11% of the 11K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Missoula, MT

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Missoula

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

  1. Second Street Fire · Grew 149 acres in 2 hours to 1,149 acres

    13 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Second Street Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Buck Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N711PB)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Stevens Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N410TD)

    20 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Nine Canyon Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    21 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. North Trapper Fire · Official update: MTBRF Piquett Creek Planned Prescribed Burn

    30 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 83%

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Skull Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Skull Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  10. Porcupine Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    40 hours ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near Missoula

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Valley Complex
2000
292,070 acres · 66 mi away
Rice Ridge
2017
160,187 acres · 36 mi away
Chippy Creek
2007
99,090 acres · 80 mi away

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