2026 Marion County, Florida Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2026 Season Fires ▲ +7 vs same period last year
485 2026 Season Acres ▲ +485 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Marion County

Mar 8 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Daytona Fire
Feb 16 Started Buckskin Fire
Feb 14 Started 478 acres 57% the size of Central Park 368 football fields Bills Branch Fire
Feb 10 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Lynne Fire
Feb 8 Started Mill Dam Fire
Feb 1 Started 3 acres 2 football fields Lake Mary 2 Fire

Largest wildfires in Marion County this season

478 Acres 57% the size of Central Park 368 football fields Bills Branch Fire Welaka
3 Acres 2 football fields Lake Mary 2 Fire Lady Lake
2 Acres 2 football fields Sellers Lake Fire Astor
1 Acres 1 football fields Daytona Fire Silver Springs Shores
1 Acres 1 football fields Lynne Fire Silver Springs

All 2026 Marion County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Marion 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 Marion County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Marion County is listed too, at its Marion County acres, and is not added to the Marion County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Marion 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
Bills Branch Fire Feb 14, 2026 100% Inactive 478 29.3137, -81.6816 29.3129, -81.6787
Lake Mary 2 Fire Feb 1, 2026 — Inactive 3 29.0802, -81.8230 29.0876, -81.8255
Sellers Lake Fire Jan 31, 2026 — Inactive 2 29.1081, -81.6513 29.1058, -81.6552
Daytona Fire Mar 8, 2026 — Inactive 1 29.1950, -81.8268 29.2262, -81.8276
Lynne Fire Feb 10, 2026 — Inactive 1 29.2173, -81.9571 29.2173, -81.9588
Buckskin Fire Feb 16, 2026 — Inactive 0 29.4158, -81.7707 29.4158, -81.7705
Mill Dam Fire Feb 8, 2026 — Inactive 0 29.1772, -81.9290 29.1774, -81.9283
Totals 2026 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 485

Land cover · Marion County 2026

Burned acres in Marion 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 Marion County % of burned % of Marion County
Forest 524 93.4% 53.5%
Range (shrubland) 1 0.2% 1.2%
Grassland 26 4.6% 30.9%
Other 10 1.9% 14.3%
Measured acres in Marion County 561 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Marion County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Bills Branch Fire 478 477 463 0 10 4 0
Sellers Lake Fire 2 74 53 0 15 5 0
Mill Dam Fire 0 4 4 0 0 0 0
Lake Mary 2 Fire 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
Daytona Fire 1 2 0 0 0 1 0
Lynne Fire 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Buckskin Fire 0 — Smaller than one cell
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 7 485
Offered to measurement 7 485
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 6 485
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 1 0
Every cell outside Marion County 0 0
Measured acres in Marion County 6 561
Measured acres outside Marion County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 561
Reported minus measured — -76
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Marion County 2026

Burned forest acres in Marion 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 Marion County % of burned forest % of Marion County's forestland
Public 479 91.3% 50.8%
Federal 476 90.8% 38.9%
State 3 0.6% 9.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 2.4%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 1 0.3% 49.2%
Family 1 0.3% 18.8%
Corporate 0 0.0% 26.8%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 3.6%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 44 8.4% —
Burned forest in Marion County 524 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Marion County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Bills Branch Fire 463 432 3 0 0 0 28
Sellers Lake Fire 53 41 0 0 0 0 12
Mill Dam Fire 4 0 0 0 0 0 4
Lake Mary 2 Fire 3 3 0 0 0 0 0
Lynne Fire 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Daytona Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 2,357 524
Land cover Forest cells 2,357 524
Equal 2,357

Search Fires

🔥 Daytona Fire 2026
Started: Mar 8 1 acre
Near Silver Springs Shores · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Buckskin Fire 2026
Started: Feb 16 0 acre
Near Welaka · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Bills Branch Fire 2026
Started: Feb 14 478 acre 100% contained
Near Welaka · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Lynne Fire 2026
Started: Feb 10 1 acre
Near Silver Springs · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Mill Dam Fire 2026
Started: Feb 8 0 acre
Near Silver Springs Shores · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Lake Mary 2 Fire 2026
Started: Feb 1 3 acre
Near Lady Lake · Marion County, Florida
🔥 Sellers Lake Fire 2026
Started: Jan 31 2 acre
Near Astor · Marion County, Florida