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South Dakota Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 38Good air quality statewide
Current situation

South Dakota

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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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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of South Dakota's 66 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
No active wildfires are currently reported in South Dakota. Conditions can change quickly during fire season, so the live map above stays current if anything ignites. Dispatch centers have logged 2 new fire reports in South Dakota in the last 24 hours (2 treated as wildfires), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 10 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 38, peak 50).
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No active fires in South Dakota right now.

Bold outline: South Dakota boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in South Dakota

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This season vs the last decade

193% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202659K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)31K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)38K acres

So far in 2026, 59K acres have burned in South Dakota, 193% of the 31K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 38K acres.

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

Active fires in South Dakota

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in South Dakota

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 89K acres
643
Fires / year · average
8,354
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
272
Structures destroyed
6
Lives lost
$99.1M
Reported cost

From 206 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
89K
44K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
7.3K
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July through September account for 34% of the acreage burned in South Dakota in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
4829632014: 367 fires20142015: 636 fires2016: 873 fires20162017: 963 fires2018: 376 fires20182019: 224 fires2020: 875 fires20202021: 916 fires2022: 740 fires20222023: 318 fires2024: 702 fires20242025: 649 fires2026: 715 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, South Dakota averaged 40K acres burned and 625 fires per year. That is 17% up in acreage and 4% 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 South 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 South Dakota

  • Jasper20004 structures destroyed83,500 acres
  • Legion Lake20173 structures destroyed54,023 acres
  • Longhorn Complex20124 structures destroyed43,639 acres
  • Cottonwood CA20162 structures destroyed41,360 acres
  • Elk Mountain Complex200126,770 acres

Fires near a city in South Dakota

Sioux FallsRapid City

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)Wisconsin (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)