Lafayette County firefighters respond to fire at Oxford recycling site
Firefighters responded to a blaze at Pea Ridge Recycling in Oxford, where smoke was visible in city limits but officials said there was no public threat.
Lafayette County firefighters responded to a fire at Pea Ridge Recycling on County Road 3067, and smoke from the Oxford site was visible across city limits. Crews were on scene and telling the public to avoid the area, but officials said the smoke did not pose a public threat.
The fire drew attention quickly in Oxford, a city of about 19,000 residents and roughly 18,000 University of Mississippi students, because the recycling yard sits in a busy part of the county’s waste-handling network. Pea Ridge Recycling is a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality certified Class 1 rubbish site, a construction and demolition debris landfill that accepts cardboard, plastic, metal, wood, green waste, concrete, asphalt and other material.
The Oxford location is listed at 32 PR 3067, Oxford, MS 38655, and the company lists the site as open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pea Ridge Recycling also says it expanded its metal recycling work and founded Pea Ridge Metals at the same Oxford location in 2023, adding to the activity on a site already built around handling mixed waste and recyclable material.
The county fire department said it operates 17 stations and 15 engines, giving it the kind of coverage needed for a fast-moving incident near Oxford. The fire also comes against the backdrop of earlier fires involving mulch, grass and other debris materials in the Oxford and Etta area, including a large mulch fire at Pea Ridge Recycling in 2025 that kept crews on scene for hours after a late-night dispatch. Those earlier responses, like this one, prompted officials to tell residents to stay clear of the area while firefighters worked.
The site sits within a broader local recycling system. The City of Oxford and the state’s recycling directory both identify County Road 321, also known as Pea Ridge Road, as a recycling drop-off and transfer-station location, and city recycling drop-offs also include the Municipal Center and the site next to Fire Station #3 on Highway 7 South. That network makes any fire at a Pea Ridge-area facility a visible disruption for nearby neighborhoods, commuters and residents using the county’s recycling routes.
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