Iowa Wildfire Map & Tracker
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Active Wildfires in Iowa
No active wildfires are currently being tracked in Iowa.About Iowa Wildfire Season
Iowa's fire season begins in late February and runs roughly twelve weeks into spring, and overall wildfire risk here is genuinely low. Less than a tenth of one percent of the state's original tallgrass prairie still survives, and what fire activity does occur plays out across agricultural remnants, prairie fragments, and woodland edges. Native grasses like big bluestem root deeply enough to survive a surface burn and recover within the same growing season. If anything defines Iowa's fire calendar today it is prescribed burning rather than wildfire hazard. Conservation districts follow a seasonal rule of burning broadleaf plants in fall and grasses in spring, a practice aimed at restoring the natural fire cycle that sustained prairie ecosystems before it was suppressed by early settlement.Iowa Fire Map Today
- Wildfire incident markers. Every active fire in Iowa 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.