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Ohio Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
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Acres
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Under 50% contained
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Typical air quality · worst 52 near Eastside Pump St
Current situation

Ohio

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Ohio's 88 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Ohio currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 0 acres. The biggest is the White Oak fire in Lawrence County at 0 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 39 monitoring stations is good (AQI 31); the worst reading right now is AQI 52 (moderate) near Eastside Pump St.
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Bold outline: Ohio boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Ohio

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This season vs the last decade

5% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202619 acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)389 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)401 acres

So far in 2026, 19 acres have burned in Ohio, 5% of the 389 acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 401 acres.

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

Active fires in Ohio

Wildfire history in Ohio

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2022
Worst year · 1,557 acres
54
Fires / year · average
701
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
48
Structures destroyed
6
Lives lost
$239K
Reported cost

From 96 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1,557
779
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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February through April account for 53% of the acreage burned in Ohio in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
45892014: 12 fires20142015: 39 fires2016: 30 fires20162017: 63 fires2018: 70 fires20182019: 67 fires2020: 70 fires20202021: 53 fires2022: 89 fires20222023: 76 fires2024: 58 fires20242025: 46 fires2026: 28 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Ohio averaged 547 acres burned and 59 fires per year. That is 190% up in acreage and 18% up 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 Ohio? 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 Ohio

  • Shawnee Complex20092,865 acres
  • Peach Orchard20034 structures destroyed1,016 acres
  • Crown City20011,000 acres
  • Crown City Complex2002706 acres
  • Mentor2003400 acres

Fires near a city in Ohio

Columbus

Nearby states

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