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Nevada Wildfires: Live Fire Map

22
Active fires
193K
Acres
3
Under 50% contained
27
Typical air quality · worst 62 near Elko
Current situation

Nevada

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
8
New fires (48h)
3
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Nevada currently has 22 active wildfires burning a combined 192,821 acres. 8 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Mouse Meadow fire in Nye County at 52,000 acres, 100% contained. 3 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center forecasts elevated fire weather conditions over parts of the state tomorrow. Typical air quality across the state's 34 monitoring stations is good (AQI 27); the worst reading right now is AQI 62 (moderate) near Elko.
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Bold outline: Nevada boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Nevada

Nevada does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

Is there a fire near me?

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This season vs the last decade

123% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026409K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)334K acres

So far in 2026, 409K acres have burned in Nevada, 123% of the 334K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Nevada

Latest fire updates in Nevada

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

  1. Harvey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Goni Fire · Grew 22 acres in about an hour to 25 acres

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Goni Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N721HT)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. Goni Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Stallion Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Shoshone Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Hawk Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Blue Eagle Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Stallion Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Shoshone Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  11. Hawk Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  12. Blue Eagle Fire · Red Flag Warning in effect for the fire area

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Wildfire history in Nevada

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2018
Worst year · 1.1M acres
604
Fires / year · average
7,857
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
620
Structures destroyed
13
Lives lost
$569.8M
Reported cost

From 1,051 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1.1M
535K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
176K
88K
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July and August account for 90% of the acreage burned in Nevada in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
3947872014: 529 fires20142015: 548 fires2016: 442 fires20162017: 770 fires2018: 634 fires20182019: 575 fires2020: 768 fires20202021: 600 fires2022: 491 fires20222023: 342 fires2024: 759 fires20242025: 612 fires2026: 787 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Nevada averaged 194K acres burned and 598 fires per year. That is 46% down in acreage and 2% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Nevada? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Nevada

  • Holloway20123 structures destroyed460,850 acres
  • Martin20181 structure destroyed435,569 acres
  • Dun Glen Complex19994 structures destroyed361,658 acres
  • Winters2006238,458 acres
  • South Sugarloaf201814 structures destroyed233,458 acres

Fires near a city in Nevada

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Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (63)Montana (59)