2025 Columbia County, Florida Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2025 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
53 2025 Season Acres ▲ +45 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Columbia County

Nov 19 Started 8 acres 6 football fields Catfish Fire
Aug 15 Started 45 acres 35 football fields 215 G Fire

Largest wildfires in Columbia County this season

45 Acres 35 football fields 215 G Fire Watertown
8 Acres 6 football fields Catfish Fire Watertown

All 2025 Columbia County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Columbia 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 Columbia County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Columbia County is listed too, at its Columbia County acres, and is not added to the Columbia County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Columbia 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
215 G Fire Aug 15, 2025 Inactive 45 30.2369, -82.5128 30.5069, -82.5718
Catfish Fire Nov 19, 2025 Inactive 8 30.3045, -82.4736 30.3065, -82.4791
Totals 2025 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 53

Land cover · Columbia County 2025

Burned acres in Columbia County for the 2025 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 Columbia County % of burned % of Columbia County
Forest 32 89.4% 66.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.8%
Grassland 0 0.6% 24.4%
Other 4 9.9% 8.4%
Measured acres in Columbia County 36
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Columbia County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
215 G Fire 45 27 24 0 0 2 0
Catfish Fire 8 9 8 0 0 1 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 53
Offered to measurement 2 53
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 53
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Columbia County 0 0
Measured acres in Columbia County 2 36
Measured acres outside Columbia County 0
Whole perimeter acres 36
Reported minus measured 17
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Columbia County 2025

Burned forest acres in Columbia County for the 2025 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 Columbia County % of burned forest % of Columbia County's forestland
Public 32 98.6% 34.6%
Federal 32 98.6% 31.1%
State 0 0.0% 3.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 65.4%
Family 0 0.0% 31.3%
Corporate 0 0.0% 22.1%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 12.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 1.4%
Burned forest in Columbia County 32
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Columbia County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
215 G Fire 24 24 0 0 0 0 0
Catfish Fire 8 7 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 144 32
Land cover Forest cells 144 32
Equal 144

Search Fires

🔥 Catfish Fire 2025
Started: Nov 19 8 acre
🔥 215 G Fire 2025
Started: Aug 15 45 acre