The fire burned overnight claiming 35 acres of the Ashdown Forest – known to the world as Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Woods.
Beginning after 9pm on Sunday, the blaze in the East Sussex heritage area was not brought under control until 4am yesterday morning.
The area popularised by the children's books of AA Milne was affected by a wildfire that seems to have caught people off guard.
"It's unusual to have a fire of this size at night," Sussex fire commander, Andrew Gausden told CNN.