2026 Baker County, Florida Wildfires

2 Active Fires

434 Acres Burning 51% the size of Central Park

8 2026 Season Fires ▲ +7 (+700%) vs same period last year

2,031 2026 Season Acres ▲ +2,016 (+13440%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Baker County

Jul 31 Started 6 acres 5 football fields Bear Bay Fire

Jul 31 Started 8 acres 6 football fields Moccasin Fire

Jul 31 Started 77 acres 59 football fields Double Strike Fire

Jul 12 Started 25 acres 19 football fields Sandhill Fire

Jul 6 Started 409 acres 315 football fields Mail Box Fire

Apr 14 Started 3 acres 2 football fields Griffis Fire

Largest wildfires in Baker County this season

409 Acres 315 football fields Mail Box Fire Macclenny

366 Acres 282 football fields Hancock Fire Macclenny

77 Acres 59 football fields Double Strike Fire Macclenny

56 Acres 43 football fields Sand Drain Fire Macclenny

25 Acres 19 football fields Sandhill Fire Macclenny

8 Acres 6 football fields Moccasin Fire Macclenny

All 2026 Baker County Fires · 8 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Baker County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Baker County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Baker County is listed too, at its Baker County acres, and is not added to the Baker County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Baker County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire	Start date	Containment	Status	Acres	Center	Ignition point
Mail Box Fire	Jul 6, 2026	100%	Active	409	30.3392, -82.3055	30.3400, -82.3161
Hancock Fire	Mar 23, 2026	—	Inactive	366	30.4322, -82.3538	—
Double Strike Fire	Jul 31, 2026	—	Inactive	77	30.3767, -82.2926	30.3703, -82.2958
Sand Drain Fire	Apr 12, 2026	100%	Inactive	56	30.4249, -82.2859	30.4232, -82.2827
Sandhill Fire	Jul 12, 2026	—	Active	25	30.4068, -82.3265	30.4286, -82.3540
Moccasin Fire	Jul 31, 2026	—	Inactive	8	30.3691, -82.3743	30.3882, -82.3323
Bear Bay Fire	Jul 31, 2026	—	Inactive	6	30.3423, -82.2729	30.3435, -82.2733
Griffis Fire	Apr 14, 2026	100%	Inactive	3	30.2094, -82.4211	30.2097, -82.4210
Also burned into Baker County
Sargent Fire from Columbia County	Apr 2, 2026	100%	Inactive	1,075 of 2,523	30.5792, -82.4637	30.5677, -82.4284
Russian Bend Fire from Columbia County	May 25, 2026	—	Inactive	6 of 34	30.3048, -82.4589	30.2800, -82.4700
241 Rd Fire from Columbia County	Aug 19, 2026	—	Inactive	0 of 6	30.2155, -82.4592	30.2180, -82.4597
Totals	2026 Season Fires 8	Active Fires 2	Acres Burning 434	2026 Season Acres 2,031

Land cover · Baker County 2026

Burned acres in Baker County for the 2026 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

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Acres by cover type	Acres in Baker County	% of burned	% of Baker County
Forest	815	95.9%	80.5%
Range (shrubland)	0	0.0%	0.5%
Grassland	0	0.0%	12.0%
Other	34	4.1%	7.0%
Burned in from another county	1,057	—	—
Measured acres in Baker County	849	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Baker County	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other
Hancock Fire	366	343	325	0	0	18
Mail Box Fire	409	332	319	0	0	13
Double Strike Fire	77	79	76	0	0	3
Sand Drain Fire	56	56	56	0	0	0
Sandhill Fire	25	26	26	0	0	0
Bear Bay Fire	6	6	6	0	0	0
Griffis Fire	3	4	3	0	0	0
Moccasin Fire	8	4	4	0	0	0
Sargent Fire burned in from Columbia County	2,523	1,051 (of 2,470)	742	2	232	76
Russian Bend Fire burned in from Columbia County	34	6 (of 34)	5	0	0	1

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	8	950
Offered to measurement	8	950
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	8	950
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Baker County	0	0
Measured acres in Baker County	8	849
Measured acres outside Baker County	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	849
Reported minus measured	—	101
Burned in from another county	2	1,057

Forest ownership · Baker County 2026

Burned forest acres in Baker County for the 2026 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

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Burned forest by owner	Forest acres in Baker County	% of burned forest	% of Baker County's forestland
Public	692	84.9%	49.5%
Federal	637	78.2%	37.2%
State	54	6.7%	9.5%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	2.8%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Private	5	0.6%	50.5%
Family	0	0.0%	2.9%
Corporate	4	0.5%	22.4%
TIMO/REIT	1	0.1%	25.1%
Other private	0	0.0%	0.0%
Ownership not modeled	118	14.5%	—
Burned in from another county	747	—	—
Burned forest in Baker County	815	—	—

Fires by owner

Fire	Forest acres in Baker County	Federal	State	Private	Not modeled
Hancock Fire	325	151	54	4	116
Mail Box Fire	319	319	0	0	0
Double Strike Fire	76	76	0	0	0
Sand Drain Fire	56	54	0	1	1
Sandhill Fire	26	26	0	0	0
Bear Bay Fire	6	4	0	1	1
Moccasin Fire	4	4	0	0	0
Griffis Fire	3	3	0	0	0
Sargent Fire burned in from Columbia County	742	441	0	174	127
Russian Bend Fire burned in from Columbia County	5	5	0	0	0