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Fires Near New York, NY

Live wildfire tracking around New York: 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 New York, NY

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 33 miles away.
There are currently 6 active fires within 300 miles of New York, NY, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside New York city limits. The most significant is the Gorge Road fire, 33 miles away at 61 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of New York, NY in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Jersey City FH monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 24).

House pin: New York, NY. Bold outline: New York 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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61 acres
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61 acres
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316 acres
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1,204 acres

This season vs the last decade

2% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)36 acres

So far in 2026, 1 acre has burned within 25 miles of New York, 2% of the 36 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 New York, NY

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near New York

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

  1. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 53%

    22 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 29%

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  3. Wild River Fire · Containment rose to 20%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  4. Tracy Run Fire · Grew 32 acres in 22 hours to 67 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  5. Gorge Road Fire · Grew 60 acres in about an hour to 61 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  6. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped at 856 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  7. Tracy Run Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Tracy Run Wildfire

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  8. Wild River Fire · Grew 697 acres in 43 hours to 982 acres

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  9. Wild River Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Wild River

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  10. Wild River Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

Historic fires near New York

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Warren Grove
2007
17,270 acres · 71 mi away
Spring Hill Fire
2019
11,638 acres · 69 mi away
16 Mile
2016
8,032 acres · 70 mi away
Penn Swamp Fire
2017
3,577 acres · 79 mi away
Overlooks
2008
3,100 acres · 71 mi away
Roosa Gap
2015
2,759 acres · 66 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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