Idaho
Idaho wildfire map today
Active wildfires in Idaho right now, the share of Idaho homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. In a typical year, wildfire activity in Idaho peaks in July and August, with southern Idaho and the northern Panhandle usually the most active. The list and counts come from the federal wildfire feed; the WUI figures come from the SILVIS Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The active-fire data refreshes every 15 minutes.
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Active fires in Idaho now
- Summit Creek
- Lemhi County Assist #1
- Custer County Assist #1
- Crawford
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 40% of Idaho’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 297,000 of 752,000 statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 34% in Boise’s Ada County to about 92% in Blaine County.
The five Idaho counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- Ada County
- Kootenai County
- Bannock County
- Bonner County
- Blaine County
Being in the interface is a description of geography, not a forecast of fire — it captures how close a building sits to vegetation that can burn. These classifications change slowly; the figures here come from the SILVIS Lab’s most recent revision of the 1990–2020 dataset, released February 2025.
Official Idaho sources
- Idaho Department of Lands — idl.idaho.gov
- Idaho Office of Emergency Management — ioem.idaho.gov