2026 Ware County, Georgia Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
1,030 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1,030 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Ware County

Aug 23 Started 1,030 acres Slightly smaller than Lincoln Park Mitchell Fire

Largest wildfires in Ware County this season

1,030 Acres Slightly smaller than Lincoln Park Mitchell Fire Folkston

All 2026 Ware County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Ware 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 Ware County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Ware County is listed too, at its Ware County acres, and is not added to the Ware County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Ware 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
Mitchell Fire Aug 23, 2026 100% Inactive 1,030 30.6284, -82.2464 30.5586, -82.2629
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1,030

Land cover · Ware County 2026

Burned acres in Ware 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 Ware County % of burned % of Ware County
Forest 1,031 100.0% 82.8%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.4%
Grassland 0 0.0% 9.7%
Other 0 0.0% 7.1%
Measured acres in Ware County 1,031 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Ware County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Mitchell Fire 1,030 1,031 1,031 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 1,030
Offered to measurement 1 1,030
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 1,030
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Ware County 0 0
Measured acres in Ware County 1 1,031
Measured acres outside Ware County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 1,031
Reported minus measured — -1
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Ware County 2026

Burned forest acres in Ware 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 Ware County % of burned forest % of Ware County's forestland
Public 1,021 99.1% 46.5%
Federal 1,021 99.1% 37.4%
State 0 0.0% 9.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 53.5%
Family 0 0.0% 21.9%
Corporate 0 0.0% 16.9%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 14.7%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 9 0.9% —
Burned forest in Ware County 1,031 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Ware County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Mitchell Fire 1,031 1,021 0 0 0 0 9

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 4,634 1,031
Land cover Forest cells 4,634 1,031
Equal 4,634

Search Fires

🔥 Mitchell Fire 2026
Started: Aug 23 1,030 acre 100% contained
Near Folkston · Ware County, Georgia