2026 Putnam County, Florida Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +0 (+0%) vs same period last year
1 2026 Season Acres ▼ -2 (-67%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Putnam County

Mar 7 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Ft. Gates Fire

Largest wildfires in Putnam County this season

1 Acres 1 football fields Ft. Gates Fire Welaka

All 2026 Putnam County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Putnam 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 Putnam County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Putnam County is listed too, at its Putnam County acres, and is not added to the Putnam County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Putnam 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
Ft. Gates Fire Mar 7, 2026 Inactive 1 29.4196, -81.6640 29.4201, -81.6630
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1

Land cover · Putnam County 2026

Burned acres in Putnam 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 Putnam County % of burned % of Putnam County
Forest 1 100.0% 61.7%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 1.3%
Grassland 0 0.0% 16.8%
Other 0 0.0% 20.2%
Measured acres in Putnam County 1
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Putnam County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Ft. Gates Fire 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 1
Offered to measurement 1 1
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 1
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Putnam County 0 0
Measured acres in Putnam County 1 1
Measured acres outside Putnam County 0
Whole perimeter acres 1
Reported minus measured 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Putnam County 2026

Burned forest acres in Putnam 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 Putnam County % of burned forest % of Putnam County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 33.9%
Federal 0 0.0% 6.2%
State 0 0.0% 24.3%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 3.4%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 66.1%
Family 0 0.0% 16.7%
Corporate 0 0.0% 30.5%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 19.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 1 100.0%
Burned forest in Putnam County 1
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Putnam County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Ft. Gates Fire 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 5 1
Land cover Forest cells 5 1
Equal 5

Search Fires

🔥 Ft. Gates Fire 2026
Started: Mar 7 1 acre