Fowler Cemetery Fire

Berkeley County, South Carolina · Wildfire

Contained Official numbers updated Oct 2, 2026 (about 2 hours ago)

First reported about 4 months ago

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	—	222 acres Oct 2, 12:00 PM	—
Containment	—	100% Oct 2, 12:00 PM	—
Crew size	—	6 Oct 2, 12:00 PM	—
Money spent	—	$10,000 Oct 2, 12:00 PM	—

Fowler Cemetery Fire summary

The Fowler Cemetery Fire is a wildfire near Berkeley County, South Carolina. It has burned about 222 acres (about 168 football fields). Crews have it fully contained, with a line all the way around it. It was first reported about 4 months ago. About 6 people are on it, run by a Type 4 IC.

Size: 222 acres
Containment: 100%
Discovered: June 13, 2026 (first reported about 4 months ago)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Friday, October 2nd at 12:00 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
This Afternoon	90°F · Mostly Sunny Wind 1 to 5 mph S · 7% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Hot Dry	72°F · Partly Cloudy Wind 0 to 3 mph S · 14% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Dry
Saturday	86°F · Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely Wind 0 to 3 mph SE · 62% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Warm Rain likely	71°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms Wind 2 mph E · 68% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Rain likely
Sunday	82°F · Showers And Thunderstorms Wind 2 mph SE · 90% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Warm Rain likely	—

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Friday, October 2nd at 12:02 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.

41 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 Friday, October 2nd at 11:04 a.m. CDT.

Who's on it

About 6 people are assigned to this fire, run by a Type 4 IC. The government rates it a Type 4 Incident. About $10,000 has been spent on it so far.

The official feed reports the total headcount, not a breakdown by crew type.

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