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Wyoming Wildfires: Live Fire Map

17
Active fires
7,880
Acres
8
Under 50% contained
25
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

Wyoming

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
1
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Wyoming currently has 17 active wildfires burning a combined 7,880 acres. One of them is a large incident of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Moonshine fire in Albany County at 7,325 acres, 74% contained. One new fire has 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 28 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 25, peak 46).
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Bold outline: Wyoming boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Wyoming

Wyoming 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

30% of an average year
Burned so far in 202667K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)220K acres

So far in 2026, 67K acres have burned in Wyoming, 30% of the 220K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Wyoming

Latest fire updates in Wyoming

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

  1. Cabin Springs Fire · Containment rose to 34%

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 74%

    39 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  3. Cabin Springs Fire · New perimeter mapped at 131 acres (national perimeter feed)

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  4. Cabin Springs Fire · Grew 20 acres in 2 hours to 40 acres

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  5. Pugsley Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Cow Camp Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026

  7. Cow Camp Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    5 days ago · September 20, 2026

  8. Telephone Fire · Mapped size revised down to 20 acres (from 30)

    6 days ago · September 19, 2026

  9. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 61%

    7 days ago · September 18, 2026

  10. Moonshine Fire · Containment rose to 51%

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  11. Moonshine Fire · New perimeter mapped at 7,304 acres (national perimeter feed)

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

  12. Erickson Draw Fire · New perimeter mapped at 30 acres (national perimeter feed)

    11 days ago · September 15, 2026

Wildfire history in Wyoming

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 834K acres
862
Fires / year · average
11K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
593
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$599.6M
Reported cost

From 605 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
834K
417K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
90K
45K
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August and September account for 78% of the acreage burned in Wyoming in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
8241.6K2014: 320 fires20142015: 528 fires2016: 713 fires20162017: 906 fires2018: 1.2K fires20182019: 979 fires2020: 1.6K fires20202021: 1.3K fires2022: 995 fires20222023: 634 fires2024: 774 fires20242025: 648 fires2026: 574 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Wyoming averaged 232K acres burned and 725 fires per year. That is 63% up in acreage and 24% down 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 Wyoming? 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 Wyoming

  • Remington2024196,368 acres
  • Deer Creek Fire, Leiter, WY2017190,000 acres
  • Mullen202066 structures destroyed176,878 acres
  • House Draw2024174,547 acres
  • Kate'S Basin Complex20002 structures destroyed137,600 acres

Fires near a city in Wyoming

CheyenneJacksonCasper

Nearby states

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