Started on Aug 31, 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
Active fires nearby2 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 4 miles northwest of Woodson, TX
- Cause
- Human
- People working on it
- 13 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
- MinimalRunning — Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.Wind Driven Runs — The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
- 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 measuring 2.5 feet in Throckmorton County, the active Harris Fire has consumed 826 acres located four miles northwest of Woodson, Texas. Driven by wind with active and running fire behavior, the incident is managed by a Type 5 Incident Command under the SFS agency with a small crew of four personnel. Satellites have detected five heat signatures over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the fire across private land.
Fire activity occurs within the region's typical fire season, which spans from June to October. Across the country, 3,161,746 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 42% below the two-decade average. Despite the broader national trend, response efforts on this particular Type 5 incident have progressed significantly, with crews achieving 90 percent containment on the ground since the fire started on August 31, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 2 days. In total it burned about 826 acres — around 3.3 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 3,226,886 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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Community reports
Reports from people near the fire · unverified
Throckmortan fire, Aug 31, 2026.
Images of the Throckmorton fire taken this afternoon.
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