2026 South Carolina Wildfires
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All 2026 South Carolina Fires · 5 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in South Carolina. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in South Carolina, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into South Carolina is listed too, at its South Carolina acres, and is not added to the South Carolina fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horse Island Fire | Berkeley | Jul 18, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 1,012 | 33.1818, -79.6614 | 33.1889, -79.6625 |
| Woodlawn Fire | McCormick | Mar 13, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 632 | 33.6331, -82.1183 | 33.6342, -82.1117 |
| Bullhead Fire | Berkeley | Mar 24, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 425 | 33.1920, -79.8697 | 33.1892, -79.8640 |
| Fowler Cemetery Fire | Berkeley | Jun 13, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 222 | 33.0301, -79.7479 | 33.0343, -79.7437 |
| 349 Fire | Berkeley | Jun 27, 2026 | — | Inactive | 30 | 33.3033, -79.8127 | 33.3034, -79.8104 |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 5 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 2,321 |
Land cover · South Carolina 2026
Burned acres in South Carolina 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 · South Carolina 2026
Burned forest acres in South Carolina 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 · South Carolina 2026
Burned acres in South Carolina 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.