Started on Jul 29, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 3 miles northeast of Woodbine, GA
- People working on it
- 1 people
- Complexity
- Type 5 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.Spotting — Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
Glossary: what each term means
Barely moving. Low, thin smoke.
Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
Spreads with low, steady flames.
Spreading evenly and steadily, with visible flame.
Fast and unpredictable.
Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
Grows along the sides, not head-on.
Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
Climbs into the treetops and jumps crown to crown. It can't be attacked from the ground.
Climbs into the crowns in bursts and drops back down.
Whole trees flaring up like torches.
Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
Whole clumps of trees flaring at once.
Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
The ones marked ● are the behaviors that make a fire harder to stop. They are not a warning or an instruction: they are the description written by the agency in charge. For decisions, always follow your emergency services.
Burning across private land in Camden County, Georgia, the Camden Mccarthy Overpass Fire has maintained a steady trajectory over sixteen days, averaging approximately eighty acres per day of growth. Located three miles northeast of Woodbine, the incident has reached a total size of 1,275 acres within a regional fire season that typically spans from June to October. Fire behavior is currently characterized as minimal, smoldering, and spotting, burning primarily through tall grass standing about 2.5 feet high.
Operations to manage the Type 5 incident have relied on a minimal response, utilizing a single personnel under a Type 5 Incident Commander. This localized effort has successfully brought the fire to one hundred percent containment. Financial expenditures for the response have totaled $33,025.
Nationwide, the broader context of the 2026 fire season reflects a relatively suppressed footprint compared to historical benchmarks. Across the country, 2,893,377 hectares have burned so far this year, marking a total that is forty-seven percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Georgia for 22 days. In total it burned about 1,275 acres — around 5.2 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 3,318,049 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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