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Active wildfires in Georgia.

Official NIFC incident records for Georgia, refreshed hourly. 1 of 2 is not yet fully contained.

2Active fires
1,850Acres burning
1Not fully contained
1,030 acresLargest — Mitchell
Where they are

Fires burning in Georgia.

Each circle is one incident, sized by reported acreage and coloured by containment — deep red for uncontained through to grey for fully contained.

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NIFC incident records, September 9, 2026. The national map is live.
Snapshot

Largest active fires in Georgia.

Recorded September 9, 2026 from the NIFC incident feed. Containment is the share of a fire's perimeter with a control line around it — not how much of it has been put out.

Largest active wildfires in Georgia as of September 9, 2026
FireSizeContainedBurningCause
Mitchell1,030 acres100%16 daysNatural
Main Trail820 acres88%26 daysNatural
Downstream

What a fire season does to Georgia water.

The reason a monitoring platform publishes a wildfire map at all.

Burn scars — the years after

Severe fire strips vegetation and can leave soil water-repellent, so rain a healthy watershed would have absorbed runs straight off the burn scar instead. That drives debris flows, channel scour, and pulses of ash and sediment into streams well downstream of anything that burned — raising turbidity, depressing dissolved oxygen, and, with the riparian canopy gone, raising water temperature across reaches cold-water species depend on. The elevated risk usually persists for several years, until vegetation re-establishes.

Not an emergency system

This is a situational-awareness map built from federal data. Perimeters lag the real fire edge, and smoke output is a forecast. For evacuation orders and life-safety information in Georgia, follow your local emergency management agency, county sheriff, and official incident channels.

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See Georgia on the live map.

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Wildfire · Smoke · United States

Official NIFC fire perimeters and incident points under NOAA’s HRRR-Smoke near-surface forecast, filterable by size, state, and containment.

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Any point · Six datasets · United States

Watershed Explorer

Click any point in the country and read what six federal datasets say about it — flow, drought, fire, flood forecast, satellite cyanobacteria screening and Clean Water Act impairment — each one labelled with what it is actually a fact about.

Streamflow · Rivers · United States

Streamflow Map — Georgia

Every reporting USGS stream gauge in the country, coloured by how today’s flow ranks against that gauge’s own record for this calendar day.

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Drought · United States

U.S. Drought Map — Georgia

The U.S. Drought Monitor — the country’s official weekly drought assessment — drawn across five severity categories from D0 to D4.

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Flood · Rivers · United States

Flood Outlook Map — Georgia

NOAA’s river forecast centres call the next few days at every forecast gauge in the country, on the National Weather Service’s own flood categories — action, minor, moderate and major.

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Water quality · 303(d) · United States

Impaired Waters Map — Georgia

Every subwatershed in the country against the states’ own Clean Water Act assessments — what is impaired, what is still on the 303(d) list, what is causing it, and how much of the country nobody has assessed at all.

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Cyanobacteria · Lakes · United States

Cyanobacteria Bloom Map — Georgia

NASA and EPA’s satellites read a pigment index over roughly 2,300 U.S. lakes large enough to resolve at 300 m. A pre-screening indicator, not a health assessment, and never a substitute for your state’s advisory.

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ESA · Protected land · United States

Critical Habitat & Protected Waters Map — Georgia

Every river and stream the federal government has designated as ESA critical habitat, the listed species each unit is designated for, and who manages the protected land around it.

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