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North Dakota Wildfires: Live Fire Map

6
Active fires
33
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
19
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

North Dakota

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of North Dakota's 53 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
North Dakota currently has 6 active wildfires burning a combined 33 acres. The biggest is the Buck fire in Benson County at 20 acres. 2 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 9 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 19, peak 25).
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Bold outline: North Dakota boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in North Dakota

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This season vs the last decade

11% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20265.1K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)46K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)47K acres

So far in 2026, 5.1K acres have burned in North Dakota, 11% of the 46K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 47K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in North Dakota

Wildfire history in North Dakota

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 313K acres
923
Fires / year · average
12K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
101
Structures destroyed
1
Lives lost
$6.8M
Reported cost

From 106 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
313K
156K
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'25
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
25K
13K
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September and October account for 64% of the acreage burned in North Dakota in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1.1K2.2K2014: 234 fires20142015: 669 fires2016: 564 fires20162017: 831 fires2018: 910 fires20182019: 888 fires2020: 1.5K fires20202021: 2.2K fires2022: 831 fires20222023: 756 fires2024: 1.0K fires20242025: 1.1K fires2026: 509 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, North Dakota averaged 81K acres burned and 844 fires per year. That is 689% up in acreage and 13% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in North Dakota? 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 North Dakota

  • Williams County202490,000 acres
  • Williams Co wildland fire202488,934 acres
  • Rough Creek Complex199915 structures destroyed68,000 acres
  • Kraft Complex200240 structures destroyed48,000 acres
  • Standing Rock Complex20061 structure destroyed20,073 acres

Fires near a city in North Dakota

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Nearby states

California (122)Oregon (43)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Texas (24)Kentucky (23)