US Wildfire Incidents Tracker: Wildfire data from NIFC (Multi-State, Radius Search, History Since 2014)

Get US wildfire and prescribed-fire incidents from National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) WFIGS public data in one clean table: fire name, acres burned, % containment, discovery and containment dates, cause, personnel, estimated cost, county, landowner category (not names), and coordinates. No API key, no login.

NOT FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL USE: data may be delayed or incomplete; not for life-safety, navigation or emergency decisions; use official sources: the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) WFIGS service, InciWeb and local fire authorities.

Why this wildfire scraper?

• 🗺️ Radius search: "every wildfire within 50 miles of this property, ranch, power line or town". Each row has distanceMiles.
• 🇺🇸 Several states in one run: MT, ID, WY, CA, OR, WA, CO, and more.
• 📜 History since 2014: over 430,000 incident records, filterable by date range. Use it for underwriting, risk scoring and research.
• 🔥 Live feed: current incidents refreshed by NIFC throughout the day. Schedule it hourly to get alerts.
• 🧯 Wildfires (WF), prescribed burns (RX) and complexes (CX), with a minimum-acre filter.
• 🚦 status in plain words: active, contained, controlled or out, worked out from the containment, control and out dates.

How it compares

	This tool	Typical alternatives
History	Since 2014, 430,000+ records	Active incidents only
Radius search	Yes	Yes (some tools)
Several states per run	Yes	Usually one state or country
Plain-word status	Yes	Varies

Who uses it

Insurance underwriters and adjusters, utilities and grid operators, real-estate and land buyers, ranchers and farm lenders, journalists, emergency managers, researchers and GIS teams.

Input example

{ "source": "history", "latitude": "45.7833", "longitude": "-108.5007", "radiusMiles": 50,
  "incidentTypes": ["WF"], "minAcres": 100, "discoveredAfter": "2020-01-01" }

Output example

{ "incidentName": "BO", "uniqueFireId": "2024-MT...", "incidentType": "WF", "acres": 250.68,
  "percentContained": 100, "discoveredAt": "2024-06-29T18:53:00+00:00", "state": "MT",
  "county": "Yellowstone", "cause": "...", "personnel": null, "estimatedCostUsd": null,
  "latitude": 45.8, "longitude": -108.4, "distanceMiles": 5.3, "source": "NIFC WFIGS (public domain)" }

You can export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or call it from the Apify API, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Pricing

$7 per 1,000 results ($0.007 per result) plus a $0.01 start fee per run.

You pay per incident saved. A typical state's current wildfires cost a few cents.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the public WFIGS ArcGIS feed published by NIFC. It is US government data and generally in the public domain. You are responsible for how you use the data. How fresh is it? The current feed is refreshed from the source on each run; upstream delays apply. History covers 2014 to today. Does it include fire perimeters? This version returns point locations. Perimeter polygons are on the roadmap. Is this tool run by the data agency? No. BigSky Data Tools is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by NIFC. Do not use it for life-safety decisions; follow local authorities.