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Wisconsin Wildfires: Live Fire Map

19
Active fires
108
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
26
Typical air quality · worst 55 near Green Bay East High
Current situation

Wisconsin

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Wisconsin currently has 19 active wildfires burning a combined 108 acres. The biggest is the Bog fire in Iron County at 94 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 36 monitoring stations is good (AQI 26); the worst reading right now is AQI 55 (moderate) near Green Bay East High.
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Bold outline: Wisconsin boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Wisconsin

Wisconsin 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

124% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.2K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)956 acres

So far in 2026, 1.2K acres have burned in Wisconsin, 124% of the 956 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Wisconsin

Latest fire updates in Wisconsin

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

  1. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  2. Bog Fire · New perimeter mapped at 55 acres (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · September 14, 2026

  3. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped at 8 acres (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  4. Quartz Fire · New perimeter mapped at 3 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  5. Tractor Fire · New perimeter mapped at 2 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Wildfire history in Wisconsin

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2025
Worst year · 3,123 acres
294
Fires / year · average
3,824
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
214
Structures destroyed
15
Lives lost
$1.5M
Reported cost

From 134 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
3,123
1,562
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
299
150
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March and April account for 54% of the acreage burned in Wisconsin in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
6341.3K2014: 11 fires20142015: 58 fires2016: 21 fires20162017: 26 fires2018: 33 fires20182019: 43 fires2020: 47 fires20202021: 60 fires2022: 66 fires20222023: 70 fires2024: 1.2K fires20242025: 1.3K fires2026: 920 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Wisconsin averaged 1,583 acres burned and 705 fires per year. That is 205% up in acreage and 1786% 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 Wisconsin? 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 Wisconsin

  • Cottonville Incident200590 structures destroyed3,410 acres
  • Pioneer Fire20071 structure destroyed1,167 acres
  • Cold Springs Fire2009617 acres
  • Foxboro Fire2007590 acres
  • Crystal Lake20037 structures destroyed572 acres

Fires near a city in Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Nearby states

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