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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.

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54 mi
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Salem, OR

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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.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Salem, OR in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. 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 70 active fires within 300 miles of Salem, OR, including 7 within 100 miles. None are inside Salem city limits. The most significant is the Grasshopper fire, 78 miles away at 93,972 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 26).

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

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112K acres
≤ 200 mi
34
258K acres
≤ 300 mi
70
689K acres

This season vs the last decade

161% of an average year
Burned so far in 202688 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)54 acres

So far in 2026, 88 acres have burned within 25 miles of Salem, 161% of the 54 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 Salem, OR

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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. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    23 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. King Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    34 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  5. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    45 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    45 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 43 acres in 4 hours to 243 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  8. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 160 acres in 19 hours to 200 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  9. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  10. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    2 days ago · November 8, 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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