Recent Events
More than 600,000 acres (2,400 km2) of the Okefenokee region burned from April to July 2007. Essentially all of the swamp burned, though the degrees of impact vary widely. Smoke from the fires was reported as far away as Atlanta and Orlando.
Four years later. in April 2011, the Honey Prairie wildfire began when the swamp had been left much drier than usual by an extreme drought. As of January, 2012, the Honey Prairie fire has already scorched more than 315,000 acres of the 438,000-acre Okefenokee, sending volumes of smoke across the southern Atlantic seaboard and with an unknown impact on wildlife. With the drought still continuing, the massive Honey Prairie fire continues to burn at only 75% containment.
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