The H1 Fire (Florida)
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 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
- 5 Miles W from DEEM CITY, FL
- Cause
- Natural
- Personnel
- 8
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Flanking, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- DVF · State land
Burning across Palm Beach County, Florida, near Deem City, The H1 Fire has charred 9,733 acres of state-owned land dominated by 2.5-foot tall grass since its natural ignition on August 14, 2026. Over its seven-day burn, the fire maintained an approximate daily expansion rate of 1,390 acres, driven by conditions typical of the region's June to October fire season.
Fire activity has now dropped to minimal, flanking, and smoldering behavior, allowing a Type 5 Incident management team consisting of eight personnel from the DVF agency to achieve 100 percent containment on the incident.
This event unfolds amid a broader national landscape where 2,955,961 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, tracking 46% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Florida for 21 days. In total it burned about 9,733 acres — around 39 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 3,177,542 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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