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Fires Near Salem, OR

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

10
Fires within 100 mi
48 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Salem, OR

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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.

  • The nearest fire is 48 miles away.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Salem, OR. Live zone status comes from Oregon OEM, refreshed every 5 minutes. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 123 active fires within 300 miles of Salem, OR, including 10 within 100 miles. None are inside Salem city limits. The most significant is the Grasshopper fire, 78 miles away at 93,971 acres, 98% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Salem, OR in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Salem - State Hospital monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 34).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 4 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 20 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: Salem, OR. Bold outline: Salem 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

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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305 acres
≤ 100 mi
10
192K acres
≤ 200 mi
67
1.6M acres
≤ 300 mi
123
2.7M acres

This season vs the last decade

159% of an average year
Burned so far in 202687 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)54 acres

So far in 2026, 87 acres have burned within 25 miles of Salem, 159% of the 54 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Salem, OR

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Salem

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

  1. Second Street Fire · Grew 149 acres in 2 hours to 1,149 acres

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Second Street Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Nine Canyon Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (S409, S408, S418)

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Sisi Fire · Grew 117 acres in 23 hours to 4,275 acres

    36 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Franklin Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  6. Franklin Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. Franklin Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Alder Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR601)

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  9. King Fire · Grew 131 acres in 12 days to 3,409 acres

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  10. Goat Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

Historic fires near Salem

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Lionshead
2020
204,469 acres · 68 mi away
Beachie Creek
2020
193,573 acres · 43 mi away · 5 deaths
Holiday Farm
2020
173,393 acres · 66 mi away · 1 death
Riverside
2020
138,054 acres · 48 mi away
Cedar Creek
2022
127,311 acres · 96 mi away
High Cascades
2011
108,154 acres · 89 mi away

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