Arkansas Wildfire Map & Tracker
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1 acre burned
Largest: Garland123 Fire
Active Wildfires in Arkansas
About Arkansas Wildfire Season
Arkansas sees two distinct windows of elevated fire risk. The first runs from February through April, when dormant vegetation, low humidity, and gusty wind combine across the state. The second stretches from August into November, peaking during harvest season as farmers burn fields and land managers conduct prescribed burns around the same time. The Ozark and Ouachita National Forests in the northwest hold a hill country fuel pattern similar to Missouri's, with dormant grass drying quickly and shaded woodland needing longer dry stretches to catch. What makes the fall period distinct is how closely it tracks agricultural timing, with routine land management and genuine wildfire risk overlapping in ways that are hard to fully separate.Arkansas Fire Map Today
- Wildfire incident markers. Every active fire in Arkansas is shown with a colored marker. Red means active, yellow means mostly contained, and gray means fully contained or no longer being tracked.
- Incident details and updates. Tap any fire below to see its size, containment percentage, recent updates, and nearby air quality on its own page.
- Automatic updates. This page pulls directly from official incident data and refreshes automatically as conditions change. It is not a live, real time map, and fast moving fires can outpace how often this page updates.
- Full app map. Open the full interactive map to search, explore fires nationwide, and save locations to track over time.