The indexnightin season or not
Blazing star & fall wildflowers, Lake Wales Ridge scrub
Fires when in season; endemic scrub blooms found nowhere else
Photograph Jay Horn · CC BY
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
September through October. The notch is October.
- Where
- Lake Wales Ridge preserves
- Drive
- 40 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- September through October
- Certainty
- in season or not
- Drone
- varies
How often we have called it on
We have called this on 6 of the 7 Sundays we looked. Last on October 4. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.
From the field
Scrub endemics that grow nowhere else on earth, and the bloom is a few weeks on ridge sand rather than a season.