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Fires Near Yakima, WA

Live wildfire tracking around Yakima: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

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Nearest fire
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Yakima, WA

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • The nearest fire is 20 miles away but mostly contained.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Yakima, WA in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Yakima County Emergency Management, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Yakima 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 81 active fires within 300 miles of Yakima, WA, including 1 within 25 miles and 13 within 100 miles. None are inside Yakima city limits. The most significant is the Little Giant fire, 99 miles away at 172,912 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Yakima, WA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Yakima-4th Ave monitor is moderate (AQI 59).

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

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Yakima is in Yakima CountyLive feed

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Live evacuation feed coverage
5of 39 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 34 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed34
  • Adams
  • Asotin
  • Benton
  • Clallam
  • Clark
  • Columbia
  • Cowlitz
  • Douglas
  • Ferry
  • Franklin
  • Garfield
  • Grant
  • Grays Harbor
  • Island
  • Jefferson
  • Kitsap
  • Kittitas
  • Klickitat
  • Lewis
  • Lincoln
  • Mason
  • Okanogan
  • Pacific
  • Pend Oreille
  • Pierce
  • San Juan
  • Skagit
  • Skamania
  • Snohomish
  • Thurston
  • Wahkiakum
  • Walla Walla
  • Whatcom
  • Whitman
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  • Chelan
  • King
  • Spokane
  • Stevens
  • Yakima
5 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • SREC 911 (Spokane County)
  • Stevens County Emergency Management
  • King County Emergency Management
  • Chelan County Emergency Management
  • Yakima County Emergency Management

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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3,000 acres
≤ 50 mi
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3,000 acres
≤ 100 mi
13
256K acres
≤ 200 mi
51
718K acres
≤ 300 mi
81
1.1M acres

This season vs the last decade

100% of an average year
Burned so far in 202643K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)43K acres

So far in 2026, 43K acres have burned within 25 miles of Yakima, 100% of the 43K 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 Yakima, WA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Yakima

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

  1. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    20 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. King Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  5. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    42 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    42 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 43 acres in 4 hours to 243 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  8. 0927 Prospect Fire · Grew 160 acres in 19 hours to 200 acres

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  9. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

  10. 0927 Prospect Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) placed under Level 2 (Get Set)

    2 days ago · November 8, 2026

Historic fires near Yakima

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Range 12
2016
176,600 acres · 15 mi away
Little Giant
2026
172,912 acres · 97 mi away
Lone Rock
2024
137,214 acres · 95 mi away
Schneider Springs
2021
107,322 acres · 35 mi away

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