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West Virginia Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 37Good typical air quality, worst 55 near MOUNDSVILLE
Current situation

West Virginia

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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of West Virginia's 55 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
No active wildfires are currently reported in West Virginia. Conditions can change quickly during fire season, so the live map above stays current if anything ignites.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 7 monitoring stations is good (AQI 37); the worst reading right now is AQI 55 (moderate) near MOUNDSVILLE.
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No active fires in West Virginia right now.

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

Evacuation status in West Virginia

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This season vs the last decade

48% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20264.0K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)8.4K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)9.3K acres

So far in 2026, 4.0K acres have burned in West Virginia, 48% of the 8.4K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 9.3K acres.

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

Active fires in West Virginia

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in West Virginia

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 44K acres
37
Fires / year · average
477
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
72
Structures destroyed
2
Lives lost
$2.9M
Reported cost

From 701 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
44K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
5.3K
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October and November account for 64% of the acreage burned in West Virginia in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
43852014: 1 fires20142015: 39 fires2016: 64 fires20162017: 27 fires2018: 18 fires20182019: 17 fires2020: 10 fires20202021: 50 fires2022: 39 fires20222023: 45 fires2024: 85 fires20242025: 56 fires2026: 26 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, West Virginia averaged 15K acres burned and 50 fires per year. That is 241% up in acreage and 78% 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 West 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 West Virginia

  • Press Jarrell20114,444 acres
  • Stateline20002,700 acres
  • Head Of Elk Creek20012,600 acres
  • Mitchell Branch20012,000 acres
  • Bandytown20051,641 acres

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)