Utah
Utah wildfire map today
Active wildfires in Utah right now, the share of Utah homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. In a typical year, wildfire activity in Utah builds through June and peaks across July and August, when the state’s high desert and mountain forests are at their driest. 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 Utah now
- Dry Lake
- Goose
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 50% of Utah’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 573,000 of 1.2 million statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 27% in Salt Lake City’s Salt Lake County to about 96% in Washington County.
The five Utah counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- Salt Lake County
- Utah County
- Washington County
- Davis County
- Weber 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 Utah sources
- Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands — ffsl.utah.gov
- Utah Division of Emergency Management — dem.utah.gov