North Dakota Wildfire Map & Tracker
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Active Wildfires in North Dakota
No active wildfires are currently being tracked in North Dakota.About North Dakota Wildfire Season
North Dakota's fire season is primarily a spring event, closely tracking snowpack levels and how early green up arrives each year. A low snowpack year, as seen in 2026, can stretch the spring season well past its usual length. Prairie grassland and the badlands terrain of the Little Missouri National Grassland make up the state's dominant fuel and landscape. Severe drought conditions in recent years have pushed fire behavior in North Dakota to genuinely extreme levels, with crews reporting fire crowning through deciduous trees, a pattern normally associated with conifer forests, not hardwoods. Fire managers point to that specific behavior as a clear, visible marker of just how dry conditions have become in a given year.North Dakota Fire Map Today
- Wildfire incident markers. Every active fire in North Dakota 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.