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Montana wildfire map today
Active wildfires in Montana right now, the share of Montana homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. In a typical year, wildfire activity in Montana peaks in July and August, after the winter snowpack melts off and the forests and rangeland dry out. 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 wildfires
5,863 ac
Total acres
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Active fires in Montana now
- Bradshaw
- Jericho Creek
- East Side
- Grey
- Side x Side - McCone
- North Canal
- Diamond
- Powerline 2
- Patriot
- Bay Horse - Powder River
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 63% of Montana’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 322,000 of 515,000 statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 35% in Bozeman’s Gallatin County to about 81% in Lewis and Clark County.
The five Montana counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- Missoula County
- Yellowstone County
- Flathead County
- Lewis and Clark County
- Gallatin 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 Montana sources
- Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation — dnrc.mt.gov/forestry
- Montana Disaster and Emergency Services — des.mt.gov