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Utah Wildfires: Live Fire Map

18
Active fires
294K
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
30
Typical air quality · worst 53 near Utah Tech. Center
Current situation

Utah

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
6
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Utah currently has 18 active wildfires burning a combined 293,719 acres. 6 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, 98% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 34 monitoring stations is good (AQI 30); the worst reading right now is AQI 53 (moderate) near Utah Tech. Center.
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Bold outline: Utah boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Utah

Utah 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

378% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026561K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)148K acres

So far in 2026, 561K acres have burned in Utah, 378% of the 148K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Mm17 I15 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene

    42 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  2. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  3. Black Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  4. Slough Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  5. Cottonwood Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

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

    12 days ago · September 13, 2026

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

    13 days ago · September 12, 2026

  8. Big Mountain Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  9. Rocky Canyon Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  10. Black Canyon Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  11. Iron Fire · New perimeter mapped at 41,467 acres (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  12. Iron Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Wildfire history in Utah

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 561K acres
1,131
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
561K
280K
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'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
41K
21K
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June and July account for 60% 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 172K acres burned and 1,089 fires per year. That is 10% up in acreage and 6% 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

Salt Lake CityProvoSt. GeorgePark City

Nearby states

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