Every solar incident in public reporting that involves a grass fire, brush fire or wildfire at or near the site, each with its sources. Free to read.
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On a Tuesday afternoon, firefighters from Cuartel VIII in Río Seco attended a grass fire in the vicinity of the Parque Solar de Río Seco at kilometre 875 on Ruta Nacional 9. Using a high-pressure hose line and hand tools, crews put the fire out. It affected...
A grass fire broke out at a Florida Power and Light solar facility on Linger Longer Road near Beer Creek in northern Bay County. The fire started in grass beneath the panels at about 6:30 on Tuesday evening. Bay County and State Forestry firefighters...
On Monday 7 September, multiple first responder agencies battled a grass fire that broke out at a solar farm complex near Hillsboro, Texas, in the 100 block of HCR 4323. Hill County Emergency Management reported that the fire burned at least 33 acres within...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
Firefighters were called to a blaze at Wheat Leasows solar farm in Hortonwood, Telford, reported at about 2pm on 23 August 2026. A fire service spokesperson said the incident involved grass, hedgerows, an electrical pylon and electrics which were on fire. Two...
On the morning of 13 July, smoke was reported from the Herrington Community Solar Farm on Bracken Road in Schaghticoke, New York. Firefighters found dry grass burning beneath a row of panels, with a failed AC/DC converter identified as the ignition source....
A vegetation fire broke out on the morning of 15 June 2026 at a solar farm near California Valley, San Luis Obispo County, California, close to Highway 58. The specific name of the solar farm was not given in the source. Flames spread through approximately 10...
A brush and grass fire broke out midday at the Florida Power & Light Sparkleberry Solar Energy Center on Pilgrim Trail in Molino, Florida. The fire occurred in four to five inch tall grass growing around rows of solar panels. Florida Forest Service personnel...
A grass fire broke out beneath panels at the North Rock Solar Farm in the town of Fulton, Wisconsin, reportedly on a Monday afternoon in late March 2026 (exact date not confirmed by the source). Strong winds drove the blaze across about 10 acres of grass...
Firefighters responded to a reported 30-acre brush fire on the evening of 27 January 2026 (date inferred from the report) at the Next Gen solar farm in Lake Placid, Florida, according to Highlands County Fire Rescue. Fire units from two stations and a...
A fire broke out at a solar installation operated by ACT Power Services near Cal Floyd Road in Northampton County, North Carolina. Officials from the North Carolina Forest Service said the fire was not caused by equipment malfunction or intentional burning,...
In December 2025, a grass fire broke out shortly after midday at Wellington North Solar Farm, a utility scale solar PV facility of several hundred megawatts near Wellington, close to Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, operated and owned by Lightsource bp. The...
On 7 November 2025, Prince George County Fire and EMS in Virginia responded to a report of smoke in the 3500 block of Rives Road at about 2:55pm. Firefighters found heavy smoke and traced it to a brush fire on a solar farm. Vegetation beneath several solar...
A brush fire broke out near the OCI Solar Powr Alamo 2 Solar Farm at the corner of Binz Engleman and Woodlake Parkway in San Antonio. The fire started around noon when two employees of the plant were cutting grass. It burned 12 acres according to the San...
A grass fire broke out at the Wild Azalea Solar Energy Center, a Florida Power & Light solar site in Gadsden County, Florida, on the evening of 24 June 2025. A Florida Forest Service Aviation Unit aircraft spotted the blaze at about 5pm and guided ground...
A brush fire broke out along the perimeter fencing of East Windsor Solar One, a solar generation site in East Windsor, Connecticut, after an equipment failure. Fire crews found a roughly 100 by 50 foot area of dried grass and shrubs ablaze near the fence...
On 20 February 2025, a fire broke out in the late afternoon at the Raywood solar farm near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, approximately 155 km northwest of Melbourne, owned by a subsidiary of Sungrow Power Australia Pty Ltd. Energy Safe Victoria said the fire...
Escambia County Fire Rescue responded to a brush and grass fire on a Saturday afternoon at Florida Power and Light's First City Solar Energy Center on Cox Road in McDavid. The fire reportedly reached about 20 acres before it was extinguished. The cause was...
Fire departments responded to an eight-acre grass fire at a solar farm near Ben Wheeler, Texas, on 16 October 2024. The fire started at about 11:30 a.m. at the Kellam Solar Farm and burned eight acres. A preliminary investigation indicated that the fire could...
On 11 May 2024, Palm Bay firefighters responded to a brush fire at the FPL Palm Bay Solar Energy Center on Centerlane Road in Palm Bay, Florida. The fire was reported just before 1 p.m. Crews arrived to a 68-acre fire that had grown to around 70 acres by the...
A large brush fire broke out at a solar farm on Maxson Hill Road in Ashaway on the afternoon of 10 April 2024. Crews were called to reports of smoke in the solar field. Firefighters said they found a grass fire under the solar panels. Officials said the fire...
All 37 solar farm grass and wildfire incidents, with filters
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 37 entries whose own reporting names this, of 345 solar entries in all. A mention in the reporting, not a finding of fault.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Thermal / fire | 16 | |
| Other | 12 | |
| Electrical | 7 | |
| Near-miss | 2 |
Counted from the words of each entry's own reporting: an entry counts under each part it names, and "Not stated" means the public reporting named none. A mention, not a finding of fault.
| Part named | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Modules or strings | 30 | |
| Roof or mounting | 4 | |
| Inverter | 2 | |
| DC cabling, connectors or isolator | 1 | |
| Transformer or switchgear | 1 | |
| Not stated | 6 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 27 | |
| Australia | 5 | |
| United Kingdom | 2 | |
| Argentina | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| India | 1 |
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The register holds 37 solar farm grass and wildfire entries from public reporting, 2019 to 2026, in 6 countries. 16 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are other, electrical, near-miss and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are modules or strings (30), roof or mounting (4), inverter (2). 6 of the 37 entries name no part. The register does not guess a cause; where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
In the reporting the register has found, United States (27), Australia (5), United Kingdom (2) have the most entries. 2 are in the United Kingdom. That partly reflects where the assets are built and where the press reports on them.
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Public reporting on solar farm grass and wildfire incidents often names the site but rarely the make, the model or the cause. The register does not guess them. Where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
37 entries so far, 23 since 2024. Confirm your email and every solar incident on the register arrives as a spreadsheet (CSV), free. One email when a new incident is reported, at most two a day, plus a Monday digest. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe in one click.
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