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Fires Near Wichita, KS

Live wildfire tracking around Wichita: 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
79 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Wichita, KS

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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 76 active fires within 300 miles of Wichita, KS, including 3 within 100 miles. None are inside Wichita city limits. The most significant is the Bison fire, 79 miles away at 889 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Wichita, KS in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the WHlthDpt monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 36).

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

Evacuation status

Kansas 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

City limits
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901 acres
≤ 200 mi
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7,382 acres
≤ 300 mi
76
16K acres

This season vs the last decade

0% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)291 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Wichita, 0% of the 291 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Wichita, KS

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Wichita

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

  1. Lake Ranch Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    10 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Cedar Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Cedar Hollow Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Dinner Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    20 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. 3470 Road Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    35 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Cedar Hollow Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    44 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  7. Bitter Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 113 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  8. Tabor Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  9. Ar State Assist Deer Creek Fire · New perimeter mapped at 4 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  10. Gracemont Fire · Containment rose to 99%

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

Historic fires near Wichita

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Barber County
2008
38,400 acres · 87 mi away
Freguson Ranch
2016
25,650 acres · 49 mi away
Burmac
2016
14,000 acres · 32 mi away
254 Fire
2006
10,700 acres · 25 mi away
Twelth Street
2006
8,800 acres · 32 mi away

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