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Fires Near Truckee, CA

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

22
Fires within 100 mi
9 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
18
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Truckee, CA

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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 9 miles away but mostly contained.
  • 3 separate fires are burning within 25 miles.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Truckee, CA. Live zone status comes from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, 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 137 active fires within 300 miles of Truckee, CA, including 3 within 25 miles and 22 within 100 miles. None are inside Truckee city limits. The most significant is the Stallion fire, 49 miles away at 40,691 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Truckee, CA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Truckee BAM monitor is good (AQI 18).

House pin: Truckee, CA. Bold outline: Truckee 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
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
3
16K acres
≤ 50 mi
7
56K acres
≤ 100 mi
22
57K acres
≤ 200 mi
74
134K acres
≤ 300 mi
137
1.1M acres

This season vs the last decade

242% of an average year
Burned so far in 202616K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.7K acres

So far in 2026, 16K acres have burned within 25 miles of Truckee, 242% of the 6.7K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Truckee, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Truckee

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

  1. Dome Fire · Grew 228 acres in 24 hours to 4,361 acres

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Highland Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Highland Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Timber Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25,341 acres (from 25,513)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Irish Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR91, CFR658)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Harvey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Goni Fire · Grew 22 acres in about an hour to 25 acres

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Goni Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N721HT)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Grade 2 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Timber Fire · Evacuation status lifted for zone MRY-F028-B

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Truckee

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Dixie
2021
963,309 acres · 74 mi away
Park
2024
429,603 acres · 93 mi away
North Complex
2020
318,935 acres · 66 mi away · 16 deaths
Rush
2012
315,577 acres · 89 mi away
Caldor
2021
221,835 acres · 51 mi away
Camp
2018
153,336 acres · 75 mi away · 85 deaths

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