Shortly after moving to Northeast St. Petersburg in May, 1985, a wildfire broke out less than a mile from my apartment building, and we had several more over the next couple weeks until the rains came in June. In 1998, from May 30th to July 10th, 234,000 acres burned in Volusia and Flagler counties in Florida. Statewide, 500,000 acres were burned by 2,200 fires. So the short answer is, yes, fires can happen in Florida.
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