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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.

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Fires within 100 mi
155 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Truckee, CA

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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 Truckee, CA in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Nevada County; neighboring counties post notices through their own official channels. 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 80 active fires within 300 miles of Truckee, CA, including 32 within 100 miles. None are inside Truckee city limits. The most significant is the Peavine fire, 155 miles away at 150 acres. 3 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Truckee, CA in the past 12 hours; the closest pass was 41 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
Air quality measured at the Truckee BAM monitor is good (AQI 23).
Firefighting aircraft active nearby. 3 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Truckee, CA in the past 12 hours; the closest pass was 41 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops. Aircraft currently broadcasting appear live on the map below via the Firefighting aircraft layer; tap any icon for its type and track.

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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Truckee is in Nevada CountyLive feed

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  • Amador
  • Colusa
  • El Dorado
  • Glenn
  • Imperial
  • Kings
  • Merced
  • Sacramento
  • San Benito
  • San Francisco
  • San Joaquin
  • Stanislaus
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  • Alameda
  • Butte
  • Calaveras
  • Contra Costa
  • Del Norte
  • Fresno
  • Humboldt
  • Inyo
  • Kern
  • Lake
  • Lassen
  • Los Angeles
  • Madera
  • Marin
  • Mariposa
  • Mendocino
  • Modoc
  • Mono
  • Monterey
  • Napa
  • Nevada
  • Orange
  • Placer
  • Plumas
12 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • CAL FIRE / Cal OES
  • Orange County Emergency Operations Center
  • Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management
  • City of Santa Rosa Emergency Operations Center
  • Placer County Sheriff's Office
  • Tuolumne County Office of Emergency Services
  • Mariposa County Office of Emergency Services
  • San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services
  • Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services
  • Butte County Sheriff's Office
  • Fresno County Sheriff's Office
  • San Luis Obispo County Office of Emergency Services

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Fires by distance

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3 acres
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24 acres
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193 acres
≤ 300 mi
80
184K acres

This season vs the last decade

265% of an average year
Burned so far in 202618K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.7K acres

So far in 2026, 18K acres have burned within 25 miles of Truckee, 265% of the 6.7K 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 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. Mountaineer Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Oak Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N604PG, CFR93, CFR210)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Dukelana Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR612)

    9 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Taylor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N464DF)

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Peavine Fire · Now mapped at 150 acres

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. Pines Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88, CFR440)

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. Iowa Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR440, CFR89, CFR88)

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  8. Oak Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR93)

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  9. Acorn Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N429DF)

    34 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  10. Pines Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    2 days ago · November 9, 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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