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Vermont 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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Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Vermont

Normal activity
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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Vermont currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 0 acres. The biggest is the 2026065 fire in Franklin County at 0 acres.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 4 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 28, peak 34).

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

Evacuation status in Vermont

Vermont 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.

Is there a fire near me?

Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

892% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026259 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)29 acres

So far in 2026, 259 acres have burned in Vermont, 892% of the 29 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Vermont

Wildfire history in Vermont

All reported wildfires since 2015, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 259 acres
25
Fires / year · average
305
Total fires · since 2015
Acres burned by year
259
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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April and May account for 51% of the acreage burned in Vermont in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
521032015: 2 fires20152016: 7 fires2017: 3 fires20172018: 3 fires2019: 4 fires20192020: 4 fires2021: 3 fires20212022: 8 fires2023: 4 fires20232024: 96 fires2025: 103 fires20252026: 68 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Vermont averaged 108 acres burned and 56 fires per year. That is 421% up in acreage and 1402% up in fire count versus the 2015–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

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

  • Norwich Fire2015137 acres

Nearby states