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North Dakota Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
3
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
16
Typical air quality · worst 68 near Lostwood NWR
Current situation

North Dakota

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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North Dakota currently has 3 active wildfires burning a combined 3 acres. The biggest is the Durum fire in McLean County at 2 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 9 monitoring stations is good (AQI 16); the worst reading right now is AQI 68 (moderate) near Lostwood NWR.
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Bold outline: North Dakota boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in North Dakota

North Dakota 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.

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This season vs the last decade

10% of an average year
Burned so far in 20265.0K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)48K acres

So far in 2026, 5.0K acres have burned in North Dakota, 10% of the 48K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in North Dakota

Wildfire history in North Dakota

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 313K acres
920
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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'20
'25
'26
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: 472 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, North Dakota averaged 81K acres burned and 837 fires per year. That is 579% up in acreage and 14% 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

FargoBismarck

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)