2026 Miami-Dade County, Florida Wildfires

1 Active Fires

1 Acres Burning 1 football fields

10 2026 Season Fires ▲ +9 (+900%) vs same period last year

32,965 2026 Season Acres ▲ +27,942 (+556%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Miami-Dade County

Aug 21 Started 116 acres 89 football fields Lemur Fire

Aug 20 Started 17,000 acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 14.1x the size of Lincoln Park Chipmunk Fire

Aug 19 Started 6,222 acres Slightly larger than JFK Airport 5.2x the size of Lincoln Park Movie Dome Fire

Aug 3 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Tadpole Fire

Jul 24 Started 287 acres 221 football fields Corner Fire

Jul 16 Started 8 acres 6 football fields Frog City Fire

Largest wildfires in Miami-Dade County this season

17,000 Acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 14.1x the size of Lincoln Park Chipmunk Fire Homestead

9,149 Acres 10.9x the size of Central Park 1.8x the size of JFK Airport HWY 41 Kendall West

6,222 Acres Slightly larger than JFK Airport 5.2x the size of Lincoln Park Movie Dome Fire Florida City

328 Acres 252 football fields Sawgrass Fire The Hammocks

287 Acres 221 football fields Corner Fire Homestead

116 Acres 89 football fields Lemur Fire Homestead

All 2026 Miami-Dade County Fires · 10 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Miami-Dade County is listed too, at its Miami-Dade County acres, and is not added to the Miami-Dade County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Miami-Dade 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
Chipmunk Fire	Aug 20, 2026	100%	Inactive	16,787 of 17,000	25.5540, -80.8133	23.5466, -80.8358
HWY 41	Apr 28, 2026	77%	Inactive	9,149	25.7064, -80.6105	25.7609, -80.5510
Movie Dome Fire	Aug 19, 2026	60%	Inactive	6,222	25.4473, -80.8311	25.7339, -80.5483
Sawgrass Fire	Jul 15, 2026	50%	Inactive	328	25.6849, -80.5818	25.7600, -80.6310
Corner Fire	Jul 24, 2026	—	Inactive	287	25.5565, -80.7372	25.5688, -80.7673
Lemur Fire	Aug 21, 2026	—	Inactive	116	25.4948, -80.8656	25.4940, -80.8662
West Of A Fire	Jun 14, 2026	—	Inactive	51	25.4209, -80.7541	25.4144, -80.7562
Panther Fire	Jun 20, 2026	—	Inactive	16	25.5538, -80.7654	25.5512, -80.7658
Frog City Fire	Jul 16, 2026	—	Inactive	8	25.7345, -80.5961	25.7352, -80.5962
Tadpole Fire	Aug 3, 2026	—	Active	1	25.7230, -80.6319	25.7445, -80.6330
Totals	2026 Season Fires 10	Active Fires 1	Acres Burning 1	2026 Season Acres 32,965

Land cover · Miami-Dade County 2026

Burned acres in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County	% of burned	% of Miami-Dade County
Forest	836	2.5%	11.5%
Range (shrubland)	2	0.0%	0.4%
Grassland	33,052	97.5%	62.8%
Other	1	0.0%	25.4%
Measured acres in Miami-Dade County	33,890	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Miami-Dade County	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other
Chipmunk Fire	17,000	17,732 (of 17,958)	337	1	17,394	0
HWY 41	9,149	9,145	220	0	8,924	1
Movie Dome Fire	6,222	6,207	190	1	6,016	0
Sawgrass Fire	328	328	71	0	257	0
Corner Fire	287	285	0	0	285	0
Lemur Fire	116	116	17	0	99	0
West Of A Fire	51	53	0	0	53	0
Panther Fire	16	16	0	0	16	0
Frog City Fire	8	8	0	0	8	0
Tadpole Fire	1	0	0	0	0	0

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	10	33,178
Offered to measurement	10	33,178
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	10	33,178
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Miami-Dade County	0	0
Measured acres in Miami-Dade County	10	33,890
Measured acres outside Miami-Dade County	—	226
Whole perimeter acres	—	34,116
Reported minus measured	—	-938
Burned in from another county	0	0

Forest ownership · Miami-Dade County 2026

Burned forest acres in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County	% of burned forest	% of Miami-Dade County's forestland
Public	496	59.3%	97.4%
Federal	496	59.3%	49.5%
State	0	0.0%	17.4%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	30.4%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.1%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.1%
Private	0	0.0%	2.5%
Family	0	0.0%	0.0%
Corporate	0	0.0%	2.5%
TIMO/REIT	0	0.0%	0.0%
Other private	0	0.0%	0.0%
Ownership not modeled	340	40.7%	—
Burned forest in Miami-Dade County	836	—	—