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Fires Near Portland, ME

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

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Live risk assessment for Portland, ME

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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.

  • Wind at the Wild River fire (60 mi away) is blowing 18 mph E, roughly toward your location.
There are currently 6 active fires within 300 miles of Portland, ME, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Portland city limits. The most significant is the Wild River fire, 60 miles away at 821 acres, 53% contained. Wind at the Wild River fire is blowing 18 mph E, roughly toward Portland, ME. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Portland, ME in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Portland Ocean Gateway monitor is good (AQI 23).

House pin: Portland, ME. Bold outline: Portland 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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821 acres
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1,076 acres
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1,137 acres

This season vs the last decade

99% of an average year
Burned so far in 202639 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)39 acres

So far in 2026, 39 acres have burned within 25 miles of Portland, 99% of the 39 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 Portland, ME

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Portland

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%

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

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

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

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

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

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

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

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

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

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

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

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

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

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

Historic fires near Portland

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Delta
2006
650 acres · 91 mi away
Curry Range Fire
2007
450 acres · 90 mi away
Covered Bridge
2016
329 acres · 54 mi away
Tri City
2018
314 acres · 29 mi away
Bayle Mountain
2015
275 acres · 50 mi away
Lucy Brook
2004
139 acres · 55 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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