Started on Feb 23, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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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
- 1 miles southeast of Miles City, FL
- Cause
- Human
- People working on it
- 1 people
- Complexity
- Type 3 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Southern Rough
- How it's behaving
- Minimal, Short-range SpottingCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Smoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- 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 for 187 days with an average daily growth of 187 acres, the human-caused National Fire has scorched 35,027 acres of federal land managed by the National Park Service in Collier County, Florida. Located one mile southeast of Miles City and near Ochopee, the fire is currently 100 percent contained and exhibiting minimal, creeping, smoldering, and short-range spotting behavior within southern rough fuels.
Despite its long duration and sprawling footprint, satellite instruments over the past 48 hours have picked up just two heat detections near the incident, reflecting the diminished activity of a blaze that has reached full containment. Operations have been overseen by a Type 5 Incident Commander directing a single personnel resource under a Type 3 Incident complexity designation, with total costs reaching $4,511,822.
The Florida incident unfolds against a broader national backdrop in 2026, where 3,126,257 hectares have burned across the country so far, a figure tracking 43 percent below the two-decade average, even as regional fires typically span from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Florida for 212 days. In total it burned about 35,027 acres — around 142 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 3,372,253 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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