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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 4 active fires within 300 miles of Washington, MD. None are inside Washington city limits. The most significant is the Gorge Road fire, 195 miles away at 61 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Washington, MD in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the McMillan Reservoir monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 33).

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.

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Fires by distance

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63 acres
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140 acres

This season vs the last decade

17% 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, 17% of the 5 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 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. Ash Lick Fork Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    25 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Ash Lick Fork Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    25 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. Ash Lick Fork Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    28 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Tracy Run Fire · Grew 32 acres in 22 hours to 67 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  5. Gorge Road Fire · Grew 60 acres in about an hour to 61 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  6. Tracy Run Fire · Official incident page published on InciWeb: Tracy Run Wildfire

    5 days ago · November 5, 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

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