2026 Chatham County, Georgia Wildfires

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1 Active Fires
841 Acres Burning About the size of Central Park
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
841 2026 Season Acres ▲ +841 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Chatham County

Aug 14 Started 841 acres About the size of Central Park Main Trail Fire

Largest wildfires in Chatham County this season

841 Acres About the size of Central Park Main Trail Fire Skidaway Island

All 2026 Chatham County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Chatham 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 Chatham County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Chatham County is listed too, at its Chatham County acres, and is not added to the Chatham County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Chatham 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
Main Trail Fire Aug 14, 2026 99% Active 841 31.8701, -80.9868 31.8725, -80.9883
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 841 2026 Season Acres 841

Land cover · Chatham County 2026

Burned acres in Chatham 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 Chatham County % of burned % of Chatham County
Forest 752 89.1% 29.0%
Range (shrubland) 3 0.3% 0.2%
Grassland 84 10.0% 33.2%
Other 5 0.6% 37.7%
Measured acres in Chatham County 844 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Chatham County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Main Trail Fire 841 844 752 3 84 5 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 841
Offered to measurement 1 841
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 841
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Chatham County 0 0
Measured acres in Chatham County 1 844
Measured acres outside Chatham County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 844
Reported minus measured — -3
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Chatham County 2026

Burned forest acres in Chatham 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 Chatham County % of burned forest % of Chatham County's forestland
Public 592 78.7% 29.7%
Federal 592 78.7% 2.6%
State 0 0.0% 15.2%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 11.9%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 70.3%
Family 0 0.0% 37.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 11.1%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 11.4%
Other private 0 0.0% 10.8%
Ownership not modeled 160 21.3% —
Burned forest in Chatham County 752 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Chatham County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Main Trail Fire 752 592 0 0 0 0 160

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 3,381 752
Land cover Forest cells 3,381 752
Equal 3,381

Search Fires

🔥 Main Trail Fire Active 2026
Started: Aug 14 841 acre 99% contained
Near Skidaway Island · Chatham County, Georgia