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Fires Near Richmond, VA

Live wildfire tracking around Richmond: 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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Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Richmond, VA

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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 18 active fires within 300 miles of Richmond, VA. None are inside Richmond city limits. The most significant is the Rose Bay Canal fire, 155 miles away at 667 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Richmond, VA in the past 12 hours.
The National Weather Service has 1 Wind Advisory in effect covering the surrounding area. Air quality measured at the MATH & SCIENCE CTR monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 29).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 4 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 25 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: Richmond, VA. Bold outline: Richmond city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

Virginia 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.

Fires by distance

City limits
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1,238 acres
≤ 300 mi
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2,846 acres
1 active weather alert
Wind Advisoryuntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued September 26 at 3:17AM EDT until September 26 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

Inland Worcester; Maryland Beaches; Accomack; Northampton

See active alerts at weather.gov

Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)46 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Richmond, 0% of the 46 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Richmond, VA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Richmond

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

  1. Florence - 2916 East Effingham Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    44 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  2. Florence - 2916 East Effingham Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    45 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  3. 1339 Mcmillan Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  4. Williamsburg - 115 Oakland Dr Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  5. Williamsburg - 115 Oakland Dr Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Darlington - 861 Davis Street Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Darlington - 861 Davis Street Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 22, 2026

  8. Horry - Woodthrust Dr/ Hwy 17 Byp Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Horry - Woodthrust Dr/ Hwy 17 Byp Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  10. Dillon - Butler Road Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

Historic fires near Richmond

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Shenandoah Complex
2000
24,197 acres · 89 mi away
Mount Pleasant
2016
11,229 acres · 95 mi away
Rocky Mtn Fire 2016
2016
10,326 acres · 84 mi away
Lateral West
2011
6,377 acres · 84 mi away
South 1
2008
4,884 acres · 86 mi away
St. Mary's
2008
4,505 acres · 98 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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