New Hampshire Wildfire, Smoke, and Air Quality Map
New Hampshire's fire behavior concentrates in a few sandy, fire-adapted pockets like the Ossipee pine barrens, while the White Mountains carry the state's weather extremes. This page tracks the live layers most relevant to conditions across the state.
Current conditions snapshot
- Wildfires
- No active mapped fires attributed to New Hampshire in the national feed right now.
- Red flag warnings
- No Red Flag Warnings in or near the New Hampshire map area.
- Smoke
- Heavy smoke over parts of the New Hampshire map area in the latest NOAA analysis (2026-08-09).
- Fire weather
- No elevated SPC fire weather outlook over the New Hampshire map area today.
- Drought
- Parts of the New Hampshire map area are severe drought (D2) on this week's U.S. Drought Monitor.
- Air quality
- Worst AirNow forecast for a New Hampshire reporting area: Belknap County, AQI 25 (Good).
- River gauges
- No gauges reporting flood conditions in the New Hampshire map area.
Data as of Aug 10, 3:20 PM MDT. Sources: NIFC, NWS, NOAA, EPA AirNow, U.S. Drought Monitor. Map areas are rectangular and overlap neighboring states; open the live map for exact locations.
Fire season and landscape
Fire season compresses into spring, mostly April and May, after the snow goes and before the hardwoods leaf out; drought falls occasionally add a second window. Summer AQI episodes in recent years have come almost entirely from Canadian smoke moving down the Connecticut and Merrimack valleys.
The White Mountain National Forest covers about 750,000 acres of the state's north-central terrain, where Mount Washington's observatory records some of the harshest weather in the East. South of the notches the state grades into lakes country and a short seacoast, with flood risk running through fast-rising rivers like the Pemigewasset and Saco.
- The Ossipee pine barrens are New Hampshire's most fire-adapted ground, and hotspot detections there are meaningful even at small sizes.
- Mountain snowpack governs the start of fire season, and the snowpack layer shows when the high country still holds snow that the valleys have already lost.
- Heavy rain in the Whites moves downstream fast, and the Pemigewasset and Saco gauges on the river layer register those rises within hours.
Official New Hampshire sources
Layer guides for New Hampshire conditions
Informational only. Not an emergency alert service. Data comes from government sources that can lag, drop, or be wrong at any time. In an emergency call 911 and follow your local authorities. Field Risk Systems is not affiliated with any government agency. See the terms of use and privacy notice.
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