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Fires Near Tucson, AZ

Live wildfire tracking around Tucson: 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 Tucson, AZ

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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 22 active fires within 300 miles of Tucson, AZ, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Tucson city limits. The most significant is the Paddy Creek fire, 123 miles away at 668 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Tucson, AZ in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the South Tucson monitor is good (AQI 19).

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

Evacuation status

Arizona 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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1 acres
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1,207 acres
≤ 300 mi
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1,210 acres

This season vs the last decade

2% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026363 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)16K acres

So far in 2026, 363 acres have burned within 25 miles of Tucson, 2% of the 16K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Tucson, AZ

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Tucson

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

  1. Flat Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  2. Paddy Creek Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  3. Johnson Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    15 days ago · September 10, 2026

  4. Paddy Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  5. Coconino Wash Fire · Official update: AZKNF Kaibab NF Fall Prescribed Fires Tusayan Ranger District

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Paddy Creek Fire · Containment rose to 63%

    23 days ago · September 3, 2026

  7. Paddy Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 668 acres (national perimeter feed)

    26 days ago · August 30, 2026

  8. Paddy Creek Fire · Grew 140 acres in 36 hours to 660 acres

    28 days ago · August 28, 2026

  9. North Fork 2 Fire · Official update: AZFTA Paddy Creek Fire

    29 days ago · August 28, 2026

  10. Paddy Creek Fire · Official update: AZFTA Paddy Creek Fire

    29 days ago · August 28, 2026

Historic fires near Tucson

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Telegraph
2021
180,757 acres · 73 mi away
Woodbury
2019
123,875 acres · 83 mi away
Bighorn
2020
119,978 acres · 11 mi away
Aspen
2003
84,750 acres · 18 mi away
Mescal
2021
72,250 acres · 62 mi away
Edge Complex
2005
71,625 acres · 78 mi away

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