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Fires Near Tacoma, WA

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

7
Fires within 100 mi
41 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
39
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Tacoma, WA

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 41 miles away.
There are currently 73 active fires within 300 miles of Tacoma, WA, including 7 within 100 miles. None are inside Tacoma city limits. The most significant is the Little Giant fire, 91 miles away at 172,912 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Tacoma, WA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Tacoma-S 36th St monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 39).

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

No evacuation feed for this area

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Tacoma is in Pierce CountyNo live feed

This county does not publish evacuation zones to a feed we can monitor, so orders or warnings here will not appear on FireNearby. Follow the county's official emergency channels.

Live evacuation feed coverage
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Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 34 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

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  • Adams
  • Asotin
  • Benton
  • Clallam
  • Clark
  • Columbia
  • Cowlitz
  • Douglas
  • Ferry
  • Franklin
  • Garfield
  • Grant
  • Grays Harbor
  • Island
  • Jefferson
  • Kitsap
  • Kittitas
  • Klickitat
  • Lewis
  • Lincoln
  • Mason
  • Okanogan
  • Pacific
  • Pend Oreille
  • Pierce
  • San Juan
  • Skagit
  • Skamania
  • Snohomish
  • Thurston
  • Wahkiakum
  • Walla Walla
  • Whatcom
  • Whitman
Live feed5
  • Chelan
  • King
  • Spokane
  • Stevens
  • Yakima
5 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • SREC 911 (Spokane County)
  • Stevens County Emergency Management
  • King County Emergency Management
  • Chelan County Emergency Management
  • Yakima County Emergency Management

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
0
no fires
≤ 50 mi
1
168 acres
≤ 100 mi
7
187K acres
≤ 200 mi
38
820K acres
≤ 300 mi
73
1.5M acres

This season vs the last decade

10% of an average year
Burned so far in 202612 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)118 acres

So far in 2026, 12 acres have burned within 25 miles of Tacoma, 10% of the 118 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 Tacoma, WA

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Latest updates on fires near Tacoma

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%

    20 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. King Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    31 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)

    42 hours ago · November 9, 2026

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

    42 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 Tacoma

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Little Giant
2026
172,912 acres · 90 mi away
Schneider Springs
2021
107,322 acres · 67 mi away

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