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Fires Near Phoenix, AZ

Live wildfire tracking around Phoenix: 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
97 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Phoenix, AZ

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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 57 active fires within 300 miles of Phoenix, AZ, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Phoenix city limits. The most significant is the Flat fire, 97 miles away at 134 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Phoenix, AZ in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Central Phoenix monitor is good (AQI 33).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 2 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 17 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: Phoenix, AZ. Bold outline: Phoenix city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

Arizona 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
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no fires
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3 acres
≤ 100 mi
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137 acres
≤ 200 mi
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807 acres
≤ 300 mi
57
1,687 acres

This season vs the last decade

5% of an average year
Burned so far in 202661 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.2K acres

So far in 2026, 61 acres have burned within 25 miles of Phoenix, 5% of the 1.2K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Phoenix, AZ

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Phoenix

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

  1. Patton Ln Tem Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR72, CFR652, T73)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Sandia Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Dorado Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Juniper Fire · 6 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N292NA, CUL561, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Bdu/Juniper Fire · 7 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N292NA, N809PJ, TKR138)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Juniper Fire · Grew 58 acres in 2 hours to 65 acres

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Juniper Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N8PQ, TKR138)

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Bdu/Juniper Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N8PQ)

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Mission Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N33HX)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Hatchery Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (FRLD59, TKR138)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Phoenix

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cave Creek Complex
2005
248,310 acres · 39 mi away
Bush
2020
193,455 acres · 32 mi away
Telegraph
2021
180,757 acres · 58 mi away
Woodbury
2019
123,875 acres · 50 mi away
Bighorn
2020
119,978 acres · 99 mi away
Willow
2004
119,500 acres · 51 mi away

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