Dos Pistolas Fire (Texas)
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 15 Miles SW from Falfurrias, TX
- Personnel
- 23
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Moderate, Torching, Spotting
- Jurisdiction
- SFS · Private land
Spanning 1,000 acres in Brooks County, Texas, the active Dos Pistolas Fire is currently burning 15 miles southwest of Falfurrias under the management of a Type 5 Incident Command and 23 SFS personnel. With 90 percent containment achieved two days after its August 11, 2026 start, the incident has averaged an approximate daily growth of 500 acres per day.
Burning across private land through 2.5-foot tall grass, the fire behavior is characterized as moderate with torching and spotting. Satellite monitoring from NASA FIRMS has detected a single heat signature over the past 48 hours in the geographic setting.
The broader wildfire activity unfolds within a regional context where the fire season typically spans from June to October. Nationally, 2,893,377 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 47% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 3 days. In total it burned about 1,000 acres — around 4.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,178,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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