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Active wildfires in Indiana.

Indiana has no active wildfire incidents in the current NIFC feed. That is the normal state for most of the country most of the year — this page updates as soon as one is reported.

Where they are

Indiana, clear.

No incidents to plot. Fires just over the state line, if any, are still drawn for context.

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NIFC incident records, September 9, 2026. The national map is live.
Downstream

What a fire season does to Indiana water.

The reason a monitoring platform publishes a wildfire map at all.

Burn scars — the years after

Severe fire strips vegetation and can leave soil water-repellent, so rain a healthy watershed would have absorbed runs straight off the burn scar instead. That drives debris flows, channel scour, and pulses of ash and sediment into streams well downstream of anything that burned — raising turbidity, depressing dissolved oxygen, and, with the riparian canopy gone, raising water temperature across reaches cold-water species depend on. The elevated risk usually persists for several years, until vegetation re-establishes.

Not an emergency system

This is a situational-awareness map built from federal data. Perimeters lag the real fire edge, and smoke output is a forecast. For evacuation orders and life-safety information in Indiana, follow your local emergency management agency, county sheriff, and official incident channels.

Live map

See Indiana on the live map.

This page is a still frame. The national map is interactive — pan, zoom, filter, and read every record behind what you see here.

Wildfire · Smoke · United States

Official NIFC fire perimeters and incident points under NOAA’s HRRR-Smoke near-surface forecast, filterable by size, state, and containment.

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More on Indiana.

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Any point · Six datasets · United States

Watershed Explorer

Click any point in the country and read what six federal datasets say about it — flow, drought, fire, flood forecast, satellite cyanobacteria screening and Clean Water Act impairment — each one labelled with what it is actually a fact about.

Streamflow · Rivers · United States

Streamflow Map — Indiana

Every reporting USGS stream gauge in the country, coloured by how today’s flow ranks against that gauge’s own record for this calendar day.

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Drought · United States

U.S. Drought Map — Indiana

The U.S. Drought Monitor — the country’s official weekly drought assessment — drawn across five severity categories from D0 to D4.

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Flood · Rivers · United States

Flood Outlook Map — Indiana

NOAA’s river forecast centres call the next few days at every forecast gauge in the country, on the National Weather Service’s own flood categories — action, minor, moderate and major.

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Water quality · 303(d) · United States

Impaired Waters Map — Indiana

Every subwatershed in the country against the states’ own Clean Water Act assessments — what is impaired, what is still on the 303(d) list, what is causing it, and how much of the country nobody has assessed at all.

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Cyanobacteria · Lakes · United States

Cyanobacteria Bloom Map — Indiana

NASA and EPA’s satellites read a pigment index over roughly 2,300 U.S. lakes large enough to resolve at 300 m. A pre-screening indicator, not a health assessment, and never a substitute for your state’s advisory.

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ESA · Protected land · United States

Critical Habitat & Protected Waters Map — Indiana

Every river and stream the federal government has designated as ESA critical habitat, the listed species each unit is designated for, and who manages the protected land around it.

Open the national critical habitat map →

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