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Wisconsin Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
49
Acres
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Under 50% contained
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Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Wisconsin

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Wisconsin's 72 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Wisconsin currently has 30 active wildfires burning a combined 49 acres. The biggest is the Redhouse fire in Ashland County at 22 acres. 2 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 3 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 16, peak 17).
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Bold outline: Wisconsin boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Wisconsin

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This season vs the last decade

150% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 20261.3K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)900 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)956 acres

So far in 2026, 1.3K acres have burned in Wisconsin, 150% of the 900 acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 956 acres.

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

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

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Lynx Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  3. Sand Lake Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  4. Hill Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  5. Springbrook Fire · Mapped size revised down to 2 acres (from 5)

    17 days ago · October 24, 2026

  6. Tower Fire · New perimeter mapped at 11 acres (national perimeter feed)

    18 days ago · October 24, 2026

  7. Tower Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    18 days ago · October 23, 2026

  8. Corn Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    19 days ago · October 22, 2026

  9. Kernel Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

  10. County Z Fire · New perimeter mapped at 2 acres (national perimeter feed)

    21 days ago · October 20, 2026

  11. County Z 1 Fire · New perimeter mapped at 3 acres (national perimeter feed)

    21 days ago · October 20, 2026

  12. Birch Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    31 days ago · October 10, 2026

Wildfire history in Wisconsin

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2025
Worst year · 3,123 acres
308
Fires / year · average
4,006
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
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'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
299
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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: 1.1K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Wisconsin averaged 1,615 acres burned and 741 fires per year. That is 211% up in acreage and 1884% 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 (120)Oregon (42)Minnesota (28)South Carolina (24)Texas (24)Kentucky (23)