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Fires Near Rapid City, SD

Live wildfire tracking around Rapid City: 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 · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Rapid City, SD

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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 10 active fires within 300 miles of Rapid City, SD. None are inside Rapid City city limits. The most significant is the Birney Road fire, 182 miles away at 48 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Rapid City, SD in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Credit Union monitor 2 miles away is moderate (AQI 70).

House pin: Rapid City, SD. Bold outline: Rapid City 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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732 acres
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2,626 acres

This season vs the last decade

19% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.2K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.2K acres

So far in 2026, 1.2K acres have burned within 25 miles of Rapid City, 19% of the 6.2K 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 Rapid City, SD

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Rapid City

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

  1. Birney Road Fire · New perimeter mapped at 48 acres (national perimeter feed)

    26 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Foot Creek Fire · Containment dropped to 36% (from 41%)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  3. Foot Creek Fire · Grew 151 acres in 24 hours to 683 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  4. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 535 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · November 7, 2026

  5. Pk Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  6. Pk Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  7. Foot Creek Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Foot Creek

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  8. Foot Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 410 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  9. Foot Creek Fire · Now mapped at 100 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  10. Pk Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 days ago · October 23, 2026

Historic fires near Rapid City

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Region 23 Complex
2012
86,201 acres · 92 mi away
Jasper
2000
83,500 acres · 41 mi away
Wellnitz
2012
77,683 acres · 92 mi away
Oil Creek
2012
62,318 acres · 54 mi away
Legion Lake
2017
54,023 acres · 25 mi away
Sioux County Complex
2006
48,800 acres · 97 mi away

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