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Texas Wildfires: Live Fire Map

112
Active fires
43K
Acres
0
Under 50% contained
35
Typical air quality · worst 70 near Houston North Wayside C405
Current situation

Texas

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
5
New fires (48h)
13
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
0
Texas currently has 112 active wildfires burning a combined 43,399 acres. 5 of them are large incidents 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. 13 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in Texas in the last 24 hours (1 treated as wildfire), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 98 monitoring stations is good (AQI 35); the worst reading right now is AQI 70 (moderate) near Houston North Wayside C405.
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Bold outline: Texas boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Texas

Texas does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

106% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026408K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)386K acres

So far in 2026, 408K acres have burned in Texas, 106% of the 386K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Limestone 8980 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Seven R Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Seven R Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    12 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Iron Lake Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    13 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Limestone 8980 Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    13 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  6. Iron Lake Fire · Containment rose to 25%

    14 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Lightning Creek Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Hydra Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Seven R Fire · Containment rose to 50%

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Seven R Fire · Mapped size revised down to 64 acres (from 100)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  11. Walker 8491 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  12. Buffalo Draw Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    17 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Wildfire history in Texas

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2024
Worst year · 1.3M acres
994
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
653K
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
115K
58K
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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: 1.5K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Texas averaged 515K acres burned and 1,409 fires per year. That is 124% up in acreage and 92% 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 (200)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (62)Montana (59)Washington (40)