# Panama City smoke from controlled burn, not wildfire 2026-08-13T20:16:07+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets A 472-acre prescribed burn in the Breakfast Point area of Florida caused smoke to drift over Panama City, Southport, and Lynn Haven on Thursday, prompting calls from residents fearing a wildfire. The Panhandle Weather Facebook page confirmed the smoke was from a controlled operation, not an uncontrolled fire. Winds from the southwest carried the smoke northeast, and officials said there was no threat of the fire spreading. The controlled burn also produced a pyrocumulus cloud, a phenomenon where intense heat causes hot air to rise, cool and condense into a cloud that can look like thick smoke. This made the prescribed burn appear more dramatic than it was. Residents may continue to see haze as winds carry the smoke across the area. ## Coverage - timesnownews.com - hindustantimes.com Tags: controlled burn, Florida, pyrocumulus cloud, smoke, USA, wildfire Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/smoke-over-panama-city-from-controlled-burn-not-wildfire/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/smoke-over-panama-city-from-controlled-burn-not-wildfire/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.