Fires near Bend, Oregon
Deschutes County, against the Deschutes National Forest · Deschutes County
The nearest active fire to Bend is 38 miles N.
- Nearest active fire
- 38 mi N
- Its size
- 1,163 acres
- Its containment
- 98%
- Fires worth watching within 30 mi
- 0
Updated from the live feed 3 minutes ago. Open the live status page or the map.
Active fires near Bend
Every fire currently burning within 100 miles of Bend that is over an acre and not yet fully contained, nearest first. Distance and direction are measured from Bend to each fire's reported location, not from a county centre. Names without a link are below the size this site writes a page for.
| Fire | Distance | Direction | Acres | Contained |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round Butte Fire | 38 mi | N | 1,163 | 98% |
| Bench Fire | 40 mi | N | 4,000 | 90% |
| Coyote Fire | 41 mi | E | 17,460 | 96% |
| Deep Creek Fire | 54 mi | W | 56 | — |
| Fire 821 | 60 mi | E | 10 | — |
| Henry Fire | 68 mi | E | 29,844 | 97% |
| Austin Fire | 74 mi | NNW | 12,831 | 36% |
| Crosswhite Fire | 75 mi | NE | 342,923 | 93% |
| Shingle Fire | 76 mi | ENE | 73,183 | 95% |
| Camel Hump Fire | 79 mi | NE | 6,789 | 90% |
| Grasshopper Fire | 83 mi | N | 93,999 | 96% |
| The Narrows Fire | 84 mi | NNW | 304 | 89% |
| Second Flat Fire | 99 mi | ESE | 105,854 | 99% |
A further 23 incidents within 100 miles of Bend are on the feed but not listed above — either under an acre (assist calls and smoke checks, which the feed carries alongside wildfires) or already reported 100% contained. Contained is not the same as out: a contained fire can burn inside its line for weeks. Everything within 100 miles, filtered or not, is on the map.
Why is it smoky in Bend?
Air quality in Bend is currently 22 — Good. Air quality is fine.
This is a modelled figure from Open-Meteo (CAMS model), not an instrument standing in Bend. It is good for "is the air bad today"; it is not a regulatory measurement, and smoke can be much worse in one draw of a valley than the model shows.
The nearest active fire is 38 miles N of Bend. Smoke does not travel in a straight line from a fire and it settles overnight in the low ground, so Bend can be smoky from a fire that is nowhere near it — Central Oregon regularly takes smoke from the Cascades and from northern California. A smoky morning here is at least as likely to be somebody else's fire as it is to be this one.
Has a satellite detected heat near Bend?
No satellite heat has been detected within 40 miles of Bend in the last 24 hours. Satellites pass roughly four times a day, so this is a snapshot rather than continuous watch — a fire that started an hour ago may not appear yet.
Source: VIIRS_NOAA20_NRT.
Fire weather for Bend
The National Weather Service has no active alert posted for Bend.
Are any roads closed near Bend?
ODOT has no fire-related road closure or restriction reported within 25 miles of Bend right now. Conditions change quickly during an incident — TripCheck is the authority.
Are fire cameras watching Bend?
6 fire-watch cameras within 40 miles of Bend are online. These are the ALERTWildfire / ALERTWest network cameras run with the University of Oregon — the same cameras dispatchers look at, pointed at ridgelines rather than roads.
- Cline Butte — 14 mi N
- Powell Butte — 19 mi ENE
- Henkle Butte — 21 mi NNW
- Pine Mtn 1 — 28 mi SE
- Grizzly Mtn — 32 mi NE
- Smith Ridge OR — 40 mi WNW
Open them on the map to see the current image. A camera is the fastest way to settle "is that smoke or is that a cloud" without waiting for anybody to file anything.
Are aircraft working a fire near Bend?
No firefighting aircraft are currently tracked within 60 nautical miles of Bend. 4 aircraft nearby could not be identified either way, and are not counted as firefighting.
Aircraft are tracked from public ADS-B broadcasts. Not every aircraft transmits, and tankers on the ground do not appear at all, so an empty result here is not proof that nothing is flying.
What burns near Bend
Bend's west side runs straight into the Deschutes National Forest — ponderosa pine beginning within a few minutes' drive of housing. That is a wildland-urban interface in the literal sense, and it is why a fire that would be a footnote in open country is treated seriously when it starts on that edge.
Fires west and south of town toward the Cascade Lakes Highway and the upper Deschutes are timber fires and can run for weeks. East of US‑97 the fuel flips to juniper and sage and behaves like Redmond's. Because Deschutes County covers roughly 3,000 square miles, "a fire in Deschutes County" can mean one at La Pine or one you can see from Awbrey Butte — which is the entire reason every distance on this site is measured from where you actually are.
When is fire season in Central Oregon?
Central Oregon's fire season generally runs from late June into October, and the shape of it matters more than the dates. The east side of the Cascades is dry every summer by design — this is high desert — so the question is never whether the fuel will be dry but what lands in it.
Two peaks are typical. Early season fires tend to be human-caused: roadside starts, equipment, escaped debris burns, and they cluster near roads and towns. Mid-to-late summer brings dry lightning, which starts fires in the Ochocos and the Cascades all at once and in places nobody can drive to — which is why a single storm can put a dozen new incidents on this map overnight and why some of them stay small for days before anyone reaches them.
Fire season also has an administrative meaning: the Oregon Department of Forestry and the local protection districts declare it, and the declaration sets what is legal — burn bans, equipment rules, chainsaw hours, campfire restrictions. Those are set by district and change during the summer. ODF publishes the current restrictions; this site does not carry them, because a restriction that is one week out of date is worse than none.
Who to follow for an evacuation
This page carries no evacuation level, and it is not a warning system. Evacuation levels in Oregon — Level 1 Be Ready, Level 2 Be Set, Level 3 Go Now — are issued by your county sheriff and nobody else. For Bend that is the Deschutes County Sheriff.
Sign up for OR‑Alert so a notification reaches you without opening anything, and read what the three levels actually mean. In an emergency call 911.
Where these numbers come from
Fire locations, size and containment are from NIFC / WFIGS, the interagency feed the agencies themselves file to. Satellite heat is NASA FIRMS, alerts are the National Weather Service, road conditions are ODOT TripCheck. Distances on this page are computed from Bend's coordinates to each fire's reported location — not from a county centroid.
Containment is the share of a fire's edge crews have a line around, not how much of it is out. More on what containment means.
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Other Central Oregon towns
- Fires near Prineville — Crook County seat, on the Crooked River
- Fires near Redmond — Deschutes County, on US‑97
- Fires near Madras — Jefferson County seat, at the US‑97 and US‑26 junction
- Fires near Sisters — Deschutes County, at the foot of the Cascades