2026 Franklin County, Florida Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
3 2026 Season Fires ▲ +3 vs same period last year
305 2026 Season Acres ▲ +305 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Franklin County

Oct 2 Started 260 acres 200 football fields Iao Fire
Oct 1 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Hog Branch Fire
Aug 9 Started 30 acres 23 football fields Bull Fire

Largest wildfires in Franklin County this season

260 Acres 200 football fields Iao Fire Apalachicola
30 Acres 23 football fields Bull Fire Apalachicola
15 Acres 12 football fields Hog Branch Fire Apalachicola

All 2026 Franklin County Fires · 3 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Franklin 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 Franklin County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Franklin County is listed too, at its Franklin County acres, and is not added to the Franklin County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Franklin 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
Iao Fire Oct 2, 2026 — Inactive 260 29.9620, -85.0076 29.9646, -84.9986
Bull Fire Aug 9, 2026 — Inactive 30 29.9637, -85.0068 29.9646, -85.0001
Hog Branch Fire Oct 1, 2026 — Inactive 15 29.9863, -84.9732 29.9887, -84.9894
Totals 2026 Season Fires 3 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 305

Land cover · Franklin County 2026

Burned acres in Franklin 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.

Forest ownership · Franklin County 2026

Burned forest acres in Franklin 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.

Burn severity · Franklin County 2026

Burned acres in Franklin County for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

Search Fires

🔥 Iao Fire 2026
Started: Oct 2 260 acre
🔥 Hog Branch Fire 2026
Started: Oct 1 15 acre
🔥 Bull Fire 2026
Started: Aug 9 30 acre