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Fires Near Washington, MD

Live wildfire tracking around Washington: 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 Washington, MD

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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 5 active fires within 300 miles of Washington, MD. None are inside Washington city limits. The most significant is the Outer Dome fire, 235 miles away at 10 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Washington, MD in the past 12 hours.
The National Weather Service has 1 Wind Advisory in effect covering the surrounding area. Air quality measured at the McMillan Reservoir monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 29).

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

Evacuation status

Maryland 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.

Fires by distance

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1,238 acres
1 active weather alert
Wind Advisoryuntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued September 26 at 3:17AM EDT until September 26 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

Inland Worcester; Maryland Beaches; Accomack; Northampton

See active alerts at weather.gov

Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

15% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)5 acres

So far in 2026, 1 acre has burned within 25 miles of Washington, 15% of the 5 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Washington, MD

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Washington

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

  1. Rose Hill Bay Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  2. Rose Bay Canal Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  3. Rose Bay Canal Fire · New perimeter mapped at 662 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

Historic fires near Washington

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Shenandoah Complex
2000
24,197 acres · 72 mi away
Rocky Mtn Fire 2016
2016
10,326 acres · 96 mi away
Fultz Run
2002
4,150 acres · 83 mi away
Irish Creek
2011
2,910 acres · 69 mi away
Guinea Marsh
2007
2,537 acres · 68 mi away
Doctors Creek
2009
2,124 acres · 67 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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