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Wildfires in Texas

Texas, United States: 331 fires with a page have entered 131 of its 254 counties since 2016, burning 1,359,419 hectares inside the region. The largest was Smokehouse Creek in February 2024, with 412,964 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; 13 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,359,419ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.0%
692,686 km²
fires
331
Since 2016
counties with fire
131
of 254
Largest fire
412,964ha
Smokehouse Creek · February 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 24° · 49 % · 40 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 19° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 21° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 22° · 58 % · 16 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The counties that burned most

  1. Hemphill 223,503 ha · 94 %
  2. Roberts 222,106 ha · 93 %
  3. Hutchinson 91,499 ha · 39 %
  4. Potter 63,457 ha · 27 %
  5. Gray 48,297 ha · 20 %
  6. Carson 46,963 ha · 20 %
  7. Lipscomb 44,993 ha · 19 %
  8. Armstrong 39,364 ha · 17 %
  9. Wheeler 37,118 ha · 16 %
  10. Palo Pinto 32,421 ha · 13 %
  11. Kleberg 29,263 ha · 12 %
  12. Jefferson 24,115 ha · 9.4 %

Counties that burn again and again

Counties with two or more fires of 400 ha or more since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20262679,633 Ross 36,619 ha
2025931,423 Windmill 9,408 ha
202417500,997 Smokehouse Creek 412,964 ha
20233640,920 H And H Complex 3,841 ha
202268182,824 Borrega 22,140 ha
20212041,172 North 207 9,772 ha
20203359,898 Holcombe Rd 10,451 ha
20193138,897 Vivian 4,804 ha
201848125,184 Mallard 30,560 ha
201724205,749 Perryton 115,328 ha
20161952,723 Crutch 18,224 ha

All fires in Texas · 346

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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