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Fires Near New Orleans, LA

Live wildfire tracking around New Orleans: 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
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for New Orleans, LA

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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.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 38 active fires within 300 miles of New Orleans, LA, including 6 within 100 miles. None are inside New Orleans city limits. The most significant is the Jetski fire, 80 miles away at 10 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of New Orleans, LA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the I-610 New Orleans Near Road monitor 4 miles away is good (AQI 34).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 28 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 6 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

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

Evacuation status

Louisiana 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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12 acres
≤ 200 mi
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1,955 acres
≤ 300 mi
38
24K acres

This season vs the last decade

43% of an average year
Burned so far in 202658 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)134 acres

So far in 2026, 58 acres have burned within 25 miles of New Orleans, 43% of the 134 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near New Orleans, LA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near New Orleans

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

  1. Carroll- Cr 62 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Merit Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  3. Merit Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  4. Polk 8959 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Polk 8959 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  6. San Augustine 8946 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    40 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. San Augustine 8946 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    40 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Bunker Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    43 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  9. Merit Creek Fire · Grew 827 acres in about an hour to 828 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  10. Merit Creek Fire · Grew 799 acres in 10 hours to 800 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near New Orleans

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Bacon Branch
2006
3,500 acres · 48 mi away
Ditch Cricket
2017
3,180 acres · 99 mi away
Sandy Fox Fire
2006
3,000 acres · 61 mi away
Barracuda
2008
2,640 acres · 98 mi away
Lipstick
2008
2,354 acres · 99 mi away
Ball Goal
2008
2,174 acres · 98 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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