Started on Aug 19, 2026.
United States todayLiveYesterday's image: fire shows in orange and red. NASA MODIS
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 21 miles west of Homestead, FL
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 11 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 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
- ActiveFlanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.Backing — Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
- Jurisdiction
- NPS · Federal 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 987 acres in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the active Movie Dome Fire is located 21 miles west of Homestead. Over its two days of burning, the fire has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 494 acres per day, exhibiting active, flanking, and backing fire behavior within 2.5-foot tall grass fuels. Satellites are picking up nine heat detections near the incident over the past 48 hours.
Management of the federal land incident is led by a Type 4 Incident Commander with the National Park Service, supported by 11 personnel. The fire currently sits at 30 percent containment with a cost of $2,000, and has a natural cause. This blaze occurs within the region's typical June to October fire season.
Nationwide, the broader wildfire context shows 2,970,412 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a 46 percent decrease below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Florida for 2 days. In total it burned about 987 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 3,216,670 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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