Sunset Fire

Leon County, Florida · Wildfire

Started inside the National Forests in Florida boundary.

Active Official numbers updated Oct 15, 2026 (about 1 hour ago)

First reported today

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	0 acres Oct 15, 6:00 PM	0 acres Oct 15, 6:00 PM	—
Containment	—	—	—
Crew size	—	—	—
Money spent	—	—	—

Sunset Fire summary

The Sunset Fire is a wildfire near Leon County, Florida. It has burned about under 1 acre. It's a brand-new fire, first reported today. We're also tracking 1 other active fire within about 75 miles.

Size: under 1 acre
Containment: Not yet reported
Discovered: October 15, 2026 (first reported today)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Thursday, October 15th at 6:00 p.m. CDT.

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Weather & fire-spread conditions

No Red Flag Warning. The National Weather Service hasn't flagged this area for dangerous fire-spread conditions right now.

Hot, dry, and windy weather can help a fire grow; cool, calm, or wet weather helps crews. The tags below rate each day for fire spread — green is calm, red can push a fire.

A general fire-weather guide (wind matters most, then how dry it is, then heat), not a prediction of what a specific fire will do.

	Day	Night
Tonight	—	66°F · Mostly Clear then Areas Of Fog Wind 0 mph · 0% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Dry
Friday	90°F · Areas Of Fog then Sunny Wind 0 to 5 mph WNW · 7% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Hot Dry	61°F · Partly Cloudy Wind 0 to 15 mph WNW · 6% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry
Saturday	72°F · Sunny Wind 15 mph N · 2% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry	53°F · Clear Wind 10 to 15 mph NE · 0% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Thursday, October 15th at 6:02 p.m. CDT.

Could this fire move fast?

Weather isn't the only thing that changes how a fire moves. The ground matters too: how steep it is, and what's growing on it. These four numbers are for the exact spot where this fire started, not the whole fire. A big fire crosses a lot of different ground.

2° slope

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill. Heat and flame lean uphill, drying out the ground above the fire before it gets there.

0% tree canopy cover

The more tree cover above a fire, the easier it is for the fire to climb from the ground into the treetops. That's called a crown fire. Crown fires move faster, throw embers farther ahead of the fire, and are harder for crews to stop head-on.

115 ft elevation

Elevation by itself doesn't make a fire more or less dangerous. But it shapes the other three numbers here: what grows there, how dry things get, and what the weather does.

Elevation and slope from the USGS 3D Elevation Program; fuel type and canopy cover from LANDFIRE (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), pulled Thursday, October 15th at 6:03 p.m. CDT.