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Florida Wildfires: Live Fire Map

9
Active fires
38K
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
40
Typical air quality · worst 72 near Woodlawn
Current situation

Florida

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
3
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
0
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Florida's 67 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Florida currently has 9 active wildfires burning a combined 38,089 acres. 3 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. 2 new fires have 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 63 monitoring stations is good (AQI 40); the worst reading right now is AQI 72 (moderate) near Woodlawn.
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Bold outline: Florida boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Florida

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This season vs the last decade

190% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026306K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)161K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)163K acres

So far in 2026, 306K acres have burned in Florida, 190% of the 161K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 163K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

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. L 28 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · November 6, 2026

  2. Bee Haven (2) (24-06) Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    14 days ago · October 27, 2026

  3. National Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    62 days ago · September 9, 2026

Wildfire history in Florida

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2017
Worst year · 441K acres
430
Fires / year · average
5,584
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
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'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: 461 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Florida averaged 176K acres burned and 313 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

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Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)