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Tennessee Wildfires: Live Fire Map

5
Active fires
340
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
34
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Tennessee

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
3
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Tennessee's 95 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Tennessee currently has 5 active wildfires burning a combined 340 acres. The biggest is the BSP - Cactus fire in Fentress County at 220 acres, 100% contained. 3 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Tennessee in the last 24 hours (1 smoke check), 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 22 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 34, peak 46).
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Bold outline: Tennessee boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Tennessee

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This season vs the last decade

83% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20267.7K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)9.3K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)13K acres

So far in 2026, 7.7K acres have burned in Tennessee, 83% of the 9.3K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 13K acres.

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

Active fires in Tennessee

Latest fire updates in Tennessee

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

  1. Tipton - Pisgah Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Campbell - Glassman Way Fire · Containment rose to 65%

    25 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  3. Humphreys - Scepter Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  4. Claiborne - Ausmus Hollow Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    27 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  5. Campbell - Glassman Way Fire · Containment rose to 40%

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. Campbell - Glassman Way Fire · Grew 70 acres in 16 hours to 115 acres

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. Bsp - Cactus Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  8. Bsp - Cactus Fire · Containment rose to 98%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  9. Bsp - Cactus Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  10. Bsp - Cactus Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    9 days ago · November 2, 2026

  11. Bsp - Cactus Fire · New perimeter mapped at 220 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · November 2, 2026

  12. Bsp - Cactus Fire · Grew 217 acres in 43 hours to 220 acres

    10 days ago · October 31, 2026

Wildfire history in Tennessee

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 66K acres
346
Fires / year · average
4,503
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
2,223
Structures destroyed
15
Lives lost
$24.5M
Reported cost

From 456 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
66K
33K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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October and November account for 56% of the acreage burned in Tennessee in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
5981.2K2014: 6 fires20142015: 24 fires2016: 188 fires20162017: 50 fires2018: 20 fires20182019: 54 fires2020: 38 fires20202021: 232 fires2022: 252 fires20222023: 1.2K fires2024: 761 fires20242025: 882 fires2026: 801 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Tennessee averaged 13K acres burned and 778 fires per year. That is 29% up in acreage and 917% 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 Tennessee? 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 Tennessee

  • Chimney Tops 220162,066 structures destroyed · 14 deaths17,140 acres
  • Stinking Creek201610,586 acres
  • Sharp20017,380 acres
  • Big South Fork Complex20006,555 acres
  • North-End Complex20012,615 acres

Fires near a city in Tennessee

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Nearby states

California (121)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)South Carolina (24)Texas (24)