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Benton MacKaye Trail Fires - 2025

These are the most recent Benton MacKaye Trail fires, BMT fire perimeters, hotspots and surface BMT smoke information.

The table below shows fires near the BMT. Fires on trail or within a mile of the trail will show red text. If a fire perimeter intersects the trail the table will show start/end trail mile, first encounter to last encounter, the entire segment is not necessarily burned.

View google maps of National & BMT Smoke, National & BMT Fires/Perimeters or both layers together. Fires/Perimeters are updated every 4 hours, surface smoke is updated hourly. A Fire weather map showing red flag warnings, fire weather watches, etc, is also available. A 4 hour heat map of Air Quality Index is also available.

Surface smoke data and fire weather is from NOAA, fires/perimeters are from National Interagency Fire Center and hot spots are from NASA.

Fire Year (1950 to present):

Updated: Mar 21, 2025

#UpdatedFire Name
(click for map)
Miles
from trail
Nearest
Trail Mile
Start/End
Trail Mile
Acres
1Mar 20, 2025Red Oak Road0.5326.0-1
2Mar 20, 2025Bear Fire6.92304.3-157
3Mar 20, 2025Highlands Parkway7.590.0-39
4Mar 19, 2025Sevier - East Parkway10.93277.4-865
5Mar 17, 2025Hicks Cemetery4.23297.8-4
6Mar 17, 2025Campbell Mountain5.4410.0-4
7Mar 17, 2025Polk - Lackey Drive8.00103.4-1
8Mar 17, 2025Blount - Happy Valley Road11.07191.9-3
9Mar 16, 2025Monroe - Rafter Road #26.81143.4-7
10Mar 14, 2025Merrill3.7610.0-5
11Mar 14, 2025Jake Camp5.5310.0-5
12Mar 14, 2025Nottely8.2034.5-1
13Mar 14, 2025Blount - Montvale Road11.91186.9-12
14Mar 13, 2025Jefferson - Banks Lane16.81304.3-13
15Mar 12, 2025Cocke - Strange Hollow Road8.04302.2-1
16Mar 11, 2025Monroe - Rafter Road6.84142.9-119
17Mar 11, 2025Polk - Wooten Road9.51117.2-1
18Mar 11, 2025Bradley - Hancock Road Northeast15.46117.2-2
19Mar 11, 2025Mcminn - Tennessee 3916.37117.5-1
20Mar 10, 2025Monroe - Holder Cemetery Road2.73142.5-281
21Mar 10, 2025Sevier - Chestnut Drive13.62255.1-1
22Mar 7, 2025Monroe- Steer Creek Rd5.88135.3-4
23Mar 7, 2025Monroe - Bear Cub Road7.55185.8-12
24Mar 7, 2025Monroe - Diamond Branch Road9.23185.8-2
25Mar 6, 2025Blount - Turkey Pen Branch Road11.28186.6-1
26Mar 6, 2025Rx - Weavers Bend Piles16.05302.2-1
27Mar 6, 2025Blount - Waters End Road16.68215.1-3
28Mar 5, 2025Caney Branch4.82143.4-5
29Mar 4, 2025Old Highway 211.1385.2-1
30Mar 4, 2025Fort Mountain Park12.3772.9-1
31Mar 4, 2025Georgia 5214.7278.2-1
32Mar 1, 2025Old Federal 214.0672.9-4
33Feb 20, 2025Rx - Marthas Branch8.20215.1-17
34Feb 12, 2025Rx - Tipton Oliver7.10214.3-309
35Feb 12, 2025Rx - Maple Branch7.19215.1-377
36Feb 12, 2025Rx - Sparks7.70215.1-164
37Jan 7, 2025Rx - Rowans Creek7.53215.1-90

Change Log

May 31, 2023: Adapted to new interactive map. Data changed 1950 to present.

March 1, 2023: Fixed for NIFC data source changes.

June 19, 2021: Fixed for NIFC data source changes.

April 18, 2021: Added all fires from 1801 to present.

August 30, 2020: Added 'Nearest Trail Mile'.

August 24, 2020: Added surface smoke.

August 23, 2020: Added hotspots.

August 19, 2020: Initial release.

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