Blue Mountains fire today — live bushfire map & alerts
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1 active fire incident in the Blue Mountains — none currently at Watch and Act or above.
Official agency feeds, as at 18 October 2026 at 7:54 pm AEDT. Planned burns excluded. Counted within 55 km of the area the map opens on.
Is there a fire in the Blue Mountains today? This live map shows every current fire and warning from the NSW Rural Fire Service across the mountains — from Glenbrook and Springwood in the lower mountains up to Katoomba, Leura, Blackheath and Mount Victoria — alongside satellite hotspots and live conditions. The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, is one of the most bushfire-prone places in New South Wales: ridge-top towns surrounded by steep, densely forested World Heritage bushland.
Open the live Blue Mountains fire map →What the Blue Mountains map shows
- Live incidents and RFS warnings (Advice, Watch and Act, Emergency Warning) for the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury
- Satellite hotspots from Himawari, MODIS and VIIRS — early detection over remote escarpment bushland
- Fire Danger Ratings, wind and the C-Haines stability index that drive fast upslope fire runs here
- Smoke and air quality — the mountains regularly sit under smoke from fires to the west
- A watch zone around your street that pushes a notification when a fire approaches
Blue Mountains bushfire history & context
The Blue Mountains have a long, serious fire history. In October 2013 the Springwood and Winmalee fires destroyed around 200 homes in a single afternoon, and during the 2019–20 Black Summer the Gospers Mountain fire — the largest forest fire from a single ignition in Australian history — burned along the northern escarpment for weeks. Steep terrain, heavy eucalypt fuel loads and towns strung along a single ridgeline (the Great Western Highway) mean fires can move fast and cut road access, so leaving early on high fire-danger days is the safest plan. Hipponics Firewatch is a situational-awareness tool that brings the RFS feed together with satellite and weather data — it is not a replacement for official warnings.
Looking wider? See the full New South Wales bushfire map for fires and warnings across the whole state.
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