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Fires Near Sioux Falls, SD

Live wildfire tracking around Sioux Falls: 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 · Good

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Live risk assessment for Sioux Falls, 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 11 active fires within 300 miles of Sioux Falls, SD. None are inside Sioux Falls city limits. The most significant is the Van Meter fire, 208 miles away at 1,091 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Sioux Falls, SD in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the SF-USD monitor 5 miles away is good (AQI 19).

House pin: Sioux Falls, SD. Bold outline: Sioux Falls city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

South Dakota 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.

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Fires by distance

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8,306 acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)2 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Sioux Falls, 0% of the 2 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Sioux Falls, SD

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Sioux Falls

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

  1. Duhamel Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  2. Needles Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · September 19, 2026

  3. Needles Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  4. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026

  5. Needles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    15 days ago · September 10, 2026

  6. Needles Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  7. Van Meter Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  8. Four Corner Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  9. Van Meter Fire · Grew 791 acres in 3 hours to 1,091 acres

    17 days ago · September 9, 2026

  10. Four Corner Fire · Now mapped at 665 acres

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

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