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Florida Wildfires: Live Fire Map

14
Active fires
65K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
29
Typical air quality · worst 62 near Lake City
Current situation

Florida

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
5
New fires (48h)
1
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
Florida currently has 14 active wildfires burning a combined 64,770 acres. 5 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the National fire in Collier County at 35,027 acres, 100% contained. One new fire has been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 72 monitoring stations is good (AQI 29); the worst reading right now is AQI 62 (moderate) near Lake City.
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Bold outline: Florida boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Florida

Florida does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

187% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026303K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)163K acres

So far in 2026, 303K acres have burned in Florida, 187% of the 163K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Florida

Latest fire updates in Florida

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Stonebrook Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    23 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Stonebrook Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    30 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Stonebrook Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    33 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  4. H2 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 24, 2026

  5. Sargent Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  6. Waterhole Fire · New perimeter mapped at 53 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 23, 2026

  7. H2 Fire · Containment rose to 98%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  8. Bee Haven Bay (24-06) Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Bee Haven Bay (24-06) Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  10. Sr 27 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    6 days ago · September 20, 2026

  11. Chipmunk Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  12. Blue Lake Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

Wildfire history in Florida

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2017
Worst year · 441K acres
428
Fires / year · average
5,566
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
2,481
Structures destroyed
13
Lives lost
$271.6M
Reported cost

From 2,423 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
441K
221K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
39K
19K
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March through May account for 68% of the acreage burned in Florida in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
9792.0K2014: 183 fires20142015: 352 fires2016: 380 fires20162017: 375 fires2018: 267 fires20182019: 2.0K fires2020: 288 fires20202021: 217 fires2022: 262 fires20222023: 281 fires2024: 187 fires20242025: 373 fires2026: 443 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Florida averaged 175K acres burned and 309 fires per year. That is 12% up in acreage and 38% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Florida? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Florida

  • West Mims20174 structures destroyed152,515 acres
  • Mile 312023135,000 acres
  • Avian Complex20189 structures destroyed82,461 acres
  • Prairie Fire201168,295 acres
  • Dixie/Lafayette Complex200157,200 acres

Fires near a city in Florida

MiamiOrlandoTampaJacksonville

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (112)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (63)Montana (59)