Tennessee
Tennessee Wildfire Map — Live Fires & Containment
The federal wildfire feed currently lists no active wildfires in Tennessee.
Active wildfires in Tennessee right now, the share of Tennessee homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s Division of Forestry describes two fire seasons a year — spring, from about February 15 to May 15, and fall, from around October 15, when the leaves begin to fall, to about December 15 — and requires a burn permit for outdoor burning between October 15 and May 15. 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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Live Tennessee wildfire map
Fire markers show active wildfires reported across Tennessee, refreshed every 15 minutes.
Every Tennessee wildfire right now
No active wildfires in Tennessee right now. When a new incident is reported to the federal feed it appears here within 15 minutes.
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Tennessee wildfire questions, answered live
Where are the fires in Tennessee right now?
As of Oct 3, 2026, 18:30 UTC, the federal wildfire feed lists no active wildfires in Tennessee. This page refreshes every 15 minutes, so a newly reported fire appears here quickly.
Are there any wildfires in Tennessee today?
Not according to the current federal feed: zero wildfires are listed in Tennessee right now.
What is the biggest fire in Tennessee right now?
There are no wildfires listed in Tennessee at the moment.
How current is this Tennessee wildfire map?
The data comes from the National Interagency Fire Center's WFIGS incident feed and is refreshed every 15 minutes. It was last updated Oct 3, 2026, 18:30 UTC. Containment percentages and acreage are what incident teams report; they can lag the situation on the ground by hours.
Where do I find evacuation orders for Tennessee?
Evacuation orders come from county sheriffs and local emergency management, not from this site. Use the official Tennessee sources listed on this page and your county’s alert system. FireRiskHere is for awareness only.
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 31% of Tennessee’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 927,000 of 3 million statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 5% in Shelby County, around Memphis, to about 79% in Sevier County, around Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Hamilton County, which takes in Chattanooga, has more interface homes than any other county in the state.
The five Tennessee counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- Hamilton County
- Davidson County
- Sevier County
- Knox County
- Sullivan 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 Tennessee sources
- Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry — tn.gov/agriculture/forests/protection/wildfire
- Burn permits, restrictions & bans (Tennessee Division of Forestry) — tn.gov/tnwildlandfire/prevention/safe-debris-burning/permits
- Tennessee Emergency Management Authority — tn.gov/tema