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
560 2026 Season Acres ▲ +560 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 3 acres 2 football fields 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
74 Acres 57 football fields Sellers Lake Fire Astor
3 Acres 2 football fields Mill Dam Fire Silver Springs Shores
3 Acres 2 football fields Lake Mary 2 Fire Lady Lake
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
Sellers Lake Fire Jan 31, 2026 — Inactive 74 29.1081, -81.6513 29.1058, -81.6552
Mill Dam Fire Feb 8, 2026 — Inactive 3 29.1772, -81.9290 29.1774, -81.9283
Lake Mary 2 Fire Feb 1, 2026 — Inactive 3 29.0802, -81.8230 29.0876, -81.8255
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
Totals 2026 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 560

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.

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.

Burn severity · Marion County 2026

Burned acres in Marion 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.

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🔥 Daytona Fire 2026
Started: Mar 8 1 acre
🔥 Buckskin Fire 2026
Started: Feb 16 0 acre
🔥 Bills Branch Fire 2026
Started: Feb 14 478 acre 100% contained
🔥 Lynne Fire 2026
Started: Feb 10 1 acre
🔥 Mill Dam Fire 2026
Started: Feb 8 3 acre
🔥 Lake Mary 2 Fire 2026
Started: Feb 1 3 acre