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Utah Wildfires: Live Fire Map

5
Active fires
168K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
60
Typical air quality · worst 73 near Red Butte
Current situation

Utah

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
4
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Utah's 29 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Utah currently has 5 active wildfires burning a combined 167,994 acres. 4 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Widemouth 2 fire in Millard County at 129,742 acres, 100% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 12 monitoring stations is moderate (AQI 60); the worst reading right now is AQI 73 (moderate) near Red Butte.
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Bold outline: Utah boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

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This season vs the last decade

346% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026536K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)155K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)155K acres

So far in 2026, 536K acres have burned in Utah, 346% of the 155K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 155K acres.

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

Active fires in Utah

Latest fire updates in Utah

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

  1. Snyder Fire · Grew 1,938 acres in 66 days to 30,202 acres

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  2. Snyder Fire · New perimeter mapped at 18,123 acres (national perimeter feed)

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  4. Slough Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  5. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    21 days ago · October 20, 2026

  6. Widemouth 2 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    43 days ago · September 28, 2026

  7. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    44 days ago · September 27, 2026

  8. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    56 days ago · September 15, 2026

  9. Black Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    56 days ago · September 15, 2026

  10. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    57 days ago · September 14, 2026

  11. Slough Canyon Fire · New perimeter mapped at 4,742 acres (national perimeter feed)

    58 days ago · September 13, 2026

  12. Widemouth 2 Fire · New perimeter mapped at 129,742 acres (national perimeter feed)

    59 days ago · September 12, 2026

Wildfire history in Utah

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 536K acres
1,132
Fires / year · average
15K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
1,217
Structures destroyed
13
Lives lost
$728.2M
Reported cost

From 1,122 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
536K
268K
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June and July account for 59% of the acreage burned in Utah in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
7831.6K2014: 904 fires20142015: 910 fires2016: 1.1K fires20162017: 1.2K fires2018: 1.3K fires20182019: 1.1K fires2020: 1.6K fires20202021: 1.1K fires2022: 990 fires20222023: 818 fires2024: 1.3K fires20242025: 1.2K fires2026: 1.2K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Utah averaged 165K acres burned and 1,093 fires per year. That is 1% down in acreage and 5% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Utah? 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 Utah

  • Milford Flat20072 structures destroyed · 2 deaths363,052 acres
  • Widemouth 22026129,742 acres
  • Clay Springs20121 structure destroyed107,847 acres
  • Babylon2026107,189 acres
  • Pole Creek20181 structure destroyed102,191 acres

Fires near a city in Utah

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Nearby states

California (120)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)South Carolina (24)Texas (24)