Avocado Fire (FL)
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🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 30 Miles W from Homestead, FL
- Personnel
- 9
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Flanking
- Jurisdiction
- NPS · Federal land
The Avocado Fire, currently an active Type 5 incident, is burning 30 miles west of Homestead in Monroe County, Florida. Since it began on July 7, 2026, the wildfire has consumed 1,000 acres of federal land managed by the National Park Service, with current fire behavior characterized as minimal and flanking through 2.5-foot tall grass.
With 90 percent containment achieved, a nine-person crew led by a Type 5 Incident Commander is working to suppress the blaze. The total cost of the operation has reached $20,000.
In context
This wildfire burned in Florida for 35 days. In total it burned about 1,000 acres — around 4.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,021,962 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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