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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.

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Missoula, MT

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 40 miles away.
There are currently 37 active fires within 300 miles of Missoula, MT, including 6 within 100 miles. None are inside Missoula city limits. The most significant is the Sand Creek fire, 96 miles away at 35,520 acres, 100% 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 28).

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.

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Fires by distance

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1,688 acres
≤ 100 mi
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60K acres
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79K acres
≤ 300 mi
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336K 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.

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

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. Silver Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Silver Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Border Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  4. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  5. East Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  6. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  7. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  8. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 55%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  9. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  10. Sand Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    12 days ago · October 29, 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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