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Texas Wildfires: Live Fire Map

24
Active fires
18K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
28
Typical air quality · worst 71 near Houston Finnigan Park C1099
Current situation

Texas

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
1
New fires (48h)
3
Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of Texas's 254 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
Texas currently has 24 active wildfires burning a combined 17,637 acres. One of them is a large incident of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Star Lake fire in Jefferson County at 16,412 acres, 100% contained. 3 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 77 monitoring stations is good (AQI 28); the worst reading right now is AQI 71 (moderate) near Houston Finnigan Park C1099.
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Bold outline: Texas boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Texas

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This season vs the last decade

112% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026417K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)372K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)384K acres

So far in 2026, 417K acres have burned in Texas, 112% of the 372K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 384K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in Texas

Latest fire updates in Texas

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Sabine 9903 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Sabine 9903 Fire · Containment rose to 60%

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Sabine 9900 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Sabine 9900 Fire · Containment rose to 95%

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Titus 9896 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. Titus 9896 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    18 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. Rusk 9882 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    2 days ago · November 9, 2026

  8. Rusk 9882 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    2 days ago · November 9, 2026

  9. Red River 7523 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  10. Dead Oak Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  11. Raceway Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N802GB)

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  12. Cass 9479 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (S422)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

Wildfire history in Texas

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 1.3M acres
1,005
Fires / year · average
13K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
5,248
Structures destroyed
25
Lives lost
$255.1M
Reported cost

From 2,149 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
1.3M
640K
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'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
115K
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February and March account for 61% of the acreage burned in Texas in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1.1K2.3K2014: 38 fires20142015: 757 fires2016: 833 fires20162017: 959 fires2018: 1.1K fires20182019: 645 fires2020: 840 fires20202021: 719 fires2022: 2.3K fires20222023: 1.5K fires2024: 721 fires20242025: 1.1K fires2026: 1.6K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Texas averaged 511K acres burned and 1,439 fires per year. That is 123% up in acreage and 96% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Texas? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Texas

  • Smokehouse Creek20241,054,153 acres
  • East Amarillo Complex200689 structures destroyed · 11 deaths907,245 acres
  • Perryton201711 structures destroyed · 1 death318,156 acres
  • Rock House201126 structures destroyed314,444 acres
  • Glass Fire2008219,556 acres

Fires near a city in Texas

HoustonSan AntonioDallasAustinEl PasoAmarilloLubbock

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)