National Fire

Collier County, Florida · Wildfire

No longer active Official numbers updated Sep 9, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

First reported about 8 months ago

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	—	35,027 acres Oct 11, 3:00 PM	—
Containment	—	100% Oct 11, 3:00 PM	—
Crew size	—	1 Oct 11, 3:00 PM	—
Money spent	—	$4.5M Oct 11, 3:00 PM	—

National Fire summary

The National Fire is a wildfire near Collier County, Florida. It has burned about 35,027 acres (about 27,000 football fields). Crews have it fully contained, with a line all the way around it. It was first reported about 8 months ago. About 1 people are on it, run by a Type 5 IC.

Size: 35,027 acres
Containment: 100%
Discovered: February 23, 2026 (first reported about 8 months ago)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:00 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	89°F · Showers And Thunderstorms Likely Wind 3 mph NE · 62% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Warm Rain likely	73°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy Wind 3 mph N · 53% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Rain likely
Thursday	91°F · Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms Wind 2 to 6 mph N · 16% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Hot Dry	72°F · Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy Wind 6 mph N · 17% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Dry
Friday	90°F · Mostly Sunny Wind 8 mph N · 7% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Hot Dry	—

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:03 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.

0° 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 3:58 p.m. CDT.