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Virginia 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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Typical air quality · worst 68 near Bristol
Current situation

Virginia

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Virginia's 133 counties and cities, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Virginia currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 2 acres. The biggest is the McClung Ridge fire in Bath County at 2 acres. 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 30 monitoring stations is good (AQI 29); the worst reading right now is AQI 68 (moderate) near Bristol.
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Bold outline: Virginia boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Virginia

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This season vs the last decade

41% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20263.5K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)8.6K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)12K acres

So far in 2026, 3.5K acres have burned in Virginia, 41% of the 8.6K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 12K acres.

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

Active fires in Virginia

Wildfire history in Virginia

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 32K acres
63
Fires / year · average
825
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
87
Structures destroyed
3
Lives lost
$62.4M
Reported cost

From 317 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
32K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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March and April account for 53% of the acreage burned in Virginia in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
561122014: 14 fires20142015: 61 fires2016: 101 fires20162017: 58 fires2018: 54 fires20182019: 30 fires2020: 58 fires20202021: 47 fires2022: 70 fires20222023: 91 fires2024: 112 fires20242025: 76 fires2026: 53 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Virginia averaged 14K acres burned and 80 fires per year. That is 113% up in acreage and 52% 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 Virginia? 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 Virginia

  • Easter Complex201235,821 acres
  • Shenandoah Complex20003 structures destroyed24,197 acres
  • Mount Pleasant201611,229 acres
  • Rocky Mtn Fire 2016201610,326 acres
  • Lateral West20116,377 acres

Fires near a city in Virginia

Richmond

Nearby states

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