US wildfires right now
Current wildfire incidents across the United States, straight from the National Interagency Fire Center's WFIGS feed — the interagency record, not a satellite estimate.
Last updated 2026-09-08 23:10 UTC · refreshes automatically on load
As of 2026-09-08 23:10 UTC, the National Interagency Fire Center's WFIGS feed lists 450 current wildfire incidents in the United States across 25 states and territories. 345 are not yet fully contained; 105 are reported 100% contained. The largest fire still burning is BIG GRASS in Oregon at 578,637 acres (94% contained). Listed incidents total 4,184,866 acres.
Top 20 of 450 — full detail on the live map
| Incident | State | Size (acres) | Contained | Discovered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIG GRASS | OR | 578,637 | 94% | 2026-07-23 |
| 0445 CROSSWHITE | OR | 342,923 | 92% | 2026-07-16 |
| Coleman Creek | OR | 308,863 | 99% | 2026-07-25 |
| LITTLE GIANT | WA | 171,458 | 81% | 2026-07-16 |
| SINLAHEKIN | WA | 166,084 | 67% | 2026-07-26 |
| Widemouth 2 | UT | 129,741 | 97% | 2026-07-27 |
| Second Flat | OR | 105,854 | 99% | 2026-07-24 |
| Aspen Acres | CO | 102,004 | 82% | 2026-06-29 |
| GRASSHOPPER | OR | 93,990 | 93% | 2026-07-24 |
| Ross | TX | 90,400 | 57% | 2026-08-24 |
| Bald Mountain | OR | 76,443 | 99% | 2026-07-23 |
| 0587 SHINGLE | OR | 73,183 | 95% | 2026-07-23 |
| Hagen | OR | 61,379 | 60% | 2026-07-16 |
| Wrights Spring | OR | 55,134 | 98% | 2026-08-05 |
| Gold Mountain | CO | 39,747 | 92% | 2026-06-27 |
| Sand Creek | MT | 35,509 | 36% | 2026-08-01 |
| McConnell | NV | 33,241 | 83% | 2026-08-25 |
| Plaskett | CA | 29,862 | 47% | 2026-08-26 |
| 0497 HENRY | OR | 29,844 | 97% | 2026-07-16 |
| Timber | CA | 25,380 | 27% | 2026-08-09 |
Questions & answers
- How current is this data?
- The page fetches the National Interagency Fire Center’s WFIGS incident feed on each visit (cached for at most 5 minutes). WFIGS is fed by IRWIN, the system federal, state and local agencies report into, so what you see is the interagency record — not a satellite estimate. If NIFC is saturated, the page serves the last successful copy and dates it accordingly.
- Why does the list include fires that are 100% contained?
- WFIGS "current" means IRWIN has not yet closed the incident out, which lags full containment by days or weeks. Rather than silently dropping those rows, the page reports both numbers: how many incidents are listed, and how many are not yet fully contained. Containment is the agency’s figure; fires with no reported containment are counted as "not reported", never as 0%.
- What does "contained" mean?
- Percent contained is the share of a fire’s perimeter that crews consider secured against further spread — a control line that is expected to hold. 100% contained does not mean the fire is out; "controlled" and "out" are later stages that WFIGS records separately.
- Does this cover every wildfire in the US?
- It covers incidents reported into IRWIN by participating agencies, filtered to the wildfire category (prescribed burns and incident complexes are excluded). Very small fires handled locally without an IRWIN record will not appear. Alaska and territories are included when the reporting agency files them.
- Can I embed this map in an article?
- Yes. Open the live map from this page, then use Share → Copy embed code. The embed carries the data citation and updates from the same live source. Attribution to NIFC rides on the layer.
- Where does the data come from?
- Directly from NIFC’s public "WFIGS Current Wildland Fire Locations" service, a US Government work in the public domain. ShowMeOnMap never pre-loads or estimates values: if the feed is down and no recent copy exists, this page says so instead of showing invented numbers.
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