Main Trail Fire

Chatham County, Georgia · Wildfire

Contained Official numbers updated Oct 6, 2026 (about 3 hours ago)

First reported about 8 weeks ago

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	820 acres Sep 10, 3:00 PM	841 acres Oct 6, 11:00 AM +21 acres was 820 acres · Sep 10, 3:00 PM	+21 acres in 26 days
Containment	99% Sep 14, 7:00 AM	100% Oct 6, 11:00 AM +1 percent was 99% · Sep 14, 7:00 AM	+1 percent in 22 days
Crew size	—	2 Oct 6, 11:00 AM	—
Money spent	$43,000 Sep 14, 7:00 AM	$42,000 Oct 6, 11:00 AM −$1,000 was $43,000 · Sep 14, 7:00 AM	−$1,000 in 22 days

Main Trail Fire summary

The Main Trail Fire is a wildfire near Chatham County, Georgia. It has burned about 841 acres (about 637 football fields). Crews have it fully contained, with a line all the way around it. It was first reported about 8 weeks ago. About 2 people are on it, run by a Type 4 IC.

Size: 841 acres
Containment: 100%
Discovered: August 14, 2026 (first reported about 8 weeks ago)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Tuesday, October 6th at 11:00 a.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
Today	75°F · Rain Showers Likely Wind 17 to 25 mph NE · 60% rain Wind: Windy Heat: Warm Rain likely	68°F · Chance Rain Showers Wind 17 to 26 mph NE · 54% rain Wind: Windy Heat: Cool Rain likely
Wednesday	77°F · Partly Sunny Wind 18 mph NE · 9% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Warm Dry	67°F · Mostly Cloudy Wind 8 to 16 mph NE · 3% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry
Thursday	77°F · Mostly Cloudy Wind 12 mph NE · 5% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Warm Dry	—

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Tuesday, October 6th at 11:01 a.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.

13° 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.

12 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, September 10th at 3:51 p.m. CDT.

Who's on it

About 2 people are assigned to this fire, run by a Type 4 IC. The government rates it a Type 4 Incident. About $42,000 has been spent on it so far.

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