Started on Aug 11, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 15 miles southwest of Falfurrias, TX
- People working on it
- 23 people
- Complexity
- Type 5 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- How it's behaving
- ModerateTorching — Whole trees flaring up like torches.Spotting — Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
- Jurisdiction
- SFS · Private land
Glossary: what each term means
Barely moving. Low, thin smoke.
Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
Spreads with low, steady flames.
Spreading evenly and steadily, with visible flame.
Fast and unpredictable.
Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
Grows along the sides, not head-on.
Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
Climbs into the treetops and jumps crown to crown. It can't be attacked from the ground.
Climbs into the crowns in bursts and drops back down.
Whole trees flaring up like torches.
Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
Whole clumps of trees flaring at once.
Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
The ones marked ● are the behaviors that make a fire harder to stop. They are not a warning or an instruction: they are the description written by the agency in charge. For decisions, always follow your emergency services.
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 3,274,905 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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