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Washington Wildfires: Live Fire Map

18
Active fires
368K
Acres
3
Under 50% contained
32
Typical air quality · worst 83 near Twisp-S Lincoln St
Current situation

Washington

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
7
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
Evac zones
0
NWS alerts
2
No evacuation orders or warnings are active in the 5 Washington counties with a live evacuation feed. 34 of its 39 counties have no feed, so orders or warnings there will not appear here. See which counties are covered below.
Washington currently has 18 active wildfires burning a combined 368,317 acres. 7 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Little Giant fire in Chelan County at 172,912 acres, 100% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Washington in the last 24 hours (1 smoke check), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
The National Weather Service has 2 Wind Advisories in effect covering parts of the state. Typical air quality across the state's 110 monitoring stations is good (AQI 32); the worst reading right now is AQI 83 (moderate) near Twisp-S Lincoln St.

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

Evacuation status in Washington

Live evacuation feed coverage
5of 39 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 34 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed34
  • Adams
  • Asotin
  • Benton
  • Clallam
  • Clark
  • Columbia
  • Cowlitz
  • Douglas
  • Ferry
  • Franklin
  • Garfield
  • Grant
  • Grays Harbor
  • Island
  • Jefferson
  • Kitsap
  • Kittitas
  • Klickitat
  • Lewis
  • Lincoln
  • Mason
  • Okanogan
  • Pacific
  • Pend Oreille
  • Pierce
  • San Juan
  • Skagit
  • Skamania
  • Snohomish
  • Thurston
  • Wahkiakum
  • Walla Walla
  • Whatcom
  • Whitman
Live feed5
  • Chelan
  • King
  • Spokane
  • Stevens
  • Yakima
5 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • SREC 911 (Spokane County)
  • Stevens County Emergency Management
  • King County Emergency Management
  • Chelan County Emergency Management
  • Yakima County Emergency Management

No zone in these feeds is under an evacuation order or warning right now. If one is issued, it will appear here and on the map above.

2 active weather alerts
Wind Advisoryuntil Nov 11, 12:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued November 10 at 1:23PM PST until November 11 at 7:00PM PST by NWS Seattle WA

San Juan County; Lowlands of Western Whatcom County; Lowlands of Western Skagit and Northwestern Snohomish Counties; Island County

See active alerts at weather.gov
Wind Advisoryuntil Nov 11, 12:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued November 10 at 1:23PM PST until November 11 at 7:00PM PST by NWS Seattle WA

Northern Washington Coast; Grays Harbor County Coast

See active alerts at weather.gov

Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

245% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026911K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)372K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)373K acres

So far in 2026, 911K acres have burned in Washington, 245% of the 372K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 373K acres.

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

Active fires in Washington

Latest fire updates in Washington

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

  1. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    23 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  2. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  3. King Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  4. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    34 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  5. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 65%

    3 days ago · November 8, 2026
  6. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    4 days ago · November 7, 2026
  7. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    6 days ago · November 5, 2026
  8. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 45%

    7 days ago · November 4, 2026
  9. Sisi Fire · Containment rose to 40%

    11 days ago · October 31, 2026
  10. Little Giant Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026
  11. Little Giant Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026
  12. Three Queens Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026

Wildfire history in Washington

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2015
Worst year · 1.5M acres
1,513
Fires / year · average
20K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
2,745
Structures destroyed
8
Lives lost
$1.8B
Reported cost

From 887 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1.5M
769K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
211K
105K
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July and August account for 80% of the acreage burned in Washington in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
9932.0K2014: 827 fires20142015: 1.3K fires2016: 951 fires20162017: 1.1K fires2018: 1.5K fires20182019: 1.5K fires2020: 1.7K fires20202021: 1.9K fires2022: 1.6K fires20222023: 2.0K fires2024: 1.7K fires20242025: 2.0K fires2026: 1.7K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Washington averaged 363K acres burned and 1,797 fires per year. That is 44% down in acreage and 35% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

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

  • Carlton Complex2014471 structures destroyed256,108 acres
  • 3222014249,970 acres
  • Pearl Hill202055 structures destroyed223,730 acres
  • North Star20151 structure destroyed218,138 acres
  • Cold Springs2020138 structures destroyed · 1 death189,923 acres

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