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Georgia Wildfires: Live Fire Map

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Active fires
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Acres
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Under 50% contained
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Air quality · Good
Current situation

Georgia

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
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New fires (48h)
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Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Georgia's 159 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Georgia currently has 1 active wildfire burning a combined 4 acres. The biggest is the GA Highway 120 fire in Haralson County at 4 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. Air quality near the center of the state is good (AQI 49).

Bold outline: Georgia boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Georgia

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This season vs the last decade

726% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202669K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)9.5K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)10K acres

So far in 2026, 69K acres have burned in Georgia, 726% of the 9.5K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 10K acres.

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

Active fires in Georgia

Latest fire updates in Georgia

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

  1. Ga Highway 120 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    24 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Wildfire history in Georgia

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2026
Worst year · 69K acres
64
Fires / year · average
833
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
162
Structures destroyed
1
Lives lost
$130.1M
Reported cost

From 229 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
69K
35K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
3.1K
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October and November account for 66% of the acreage burned in Georgia in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
811622014: 25 fires20142015: 46 fires2016: 113 fires20162017: 37 fires2018: 32 fires20182019: 34 fires2020: 28 fires20202021: 45 fires2022: 82 fires20222023: 69 fires2024: 61 fires20242025: 162 fires2026: 99 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Georgia averaged 19K acres burned and 95 fires per year. That is 87% up in acreage and 110% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Georgia? 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 Georgia

  • Honey Prairie20111 structure destroyed309,200 acres
  • Blackjack Bay Complex2002124,104 acres
  • Sweat Farm Road200723 structures destroyed68,361 acres
  • Rough Ridge201627,870 acres
  • Okr Friendly Fire199927,340 acres

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