Started on Aug 13, 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
- 2 miles north of Paducah, TX
- People working on it
- 27 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
- ModerateSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- 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.
Burning through tall grass standing two and a half feet high in Cottle County, the active Grass Burr Fire is currently managed by a Type 5 Incident command with 52 personnel from the SFS. Situated two miles north of Paducah, Texas, the fire has shown minimal behavior despite its size and location on private land.
The incident has consumed 2,622 acres since it started on August 13, 2026, and has achieved 85 percent containment. Overhead, satellites are picking up 12 heat detections over the last 48 hours, illustrating the current distribution of thermal signatures near the fire perimeter.
This event unfolds during a typical fire season that runs from June to October. Regionally, the broader fire landscape shows that 2,902,022 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 47 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 2 days. In total it burned about 2,622 acres — around 11 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 3,288,995 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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