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Fires Near Salt Lake City, UT

Live wildfire tracking around Salt Lake City: 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
44 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Salt Lake City, UT

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 44 miles away.
There are currently 12 active fires within 300 miles of Salt Lake City, UT, including 2 within 100 miles. None are inside Salt Lake City city limits. The most significant is the Black Canyon fire, 100 miles away at 3,264 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Salt Lake City, UT in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Hawthorne monitor 2 miles away is moderate (AQI 74).

House pin: Salt Lake City, UT. Bold outline: Salt Lake 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

City limits
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12 acres
≤ 100 mi
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3,276 acres
≤ 200 mi
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171K acres
≤ 300 mi
12
278K acres

This season vs the last decade

615% of an average year
Burned so far in 202617K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2.8K acres

So far in 2026, 17K acres have burned within 25 miles of Salt Lake City, 615% of the 2.8K 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 Salt Lake City, UT

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Salt Lake City

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

  1. Snyder Fire · Grew 1,938 acres in 66 days to 30,202 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Snyder Fire · New perimeter mapped at 18,123 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  4. Slough Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  5. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  6. East Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  7. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  8. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · October 30, 2026

  9. East Fork Fire · Containment rose to 55%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

  10. East Fork Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

Historic fires near Salt Lake City

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Pole Creek
2018
102,191 acres · 67 mi away
East Fork
2020
90,000 acres · 63 mi away
Canal
2020
78,065 acres · 95 mi away
Dollar Ridge
2018
70,003 acres · 67 mi away
Railroad
1999
61,417 acres · 66 mi away

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