Rio Escondido Fire (Texas)
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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
- 2 Miles NE from Evant, TX
- Cause
- Human
- Personnel
- 35
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Creeping, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- SFS · Private land
Burning for a full week across Hamilton County, Texas, the 2,713-acre Rio Escondido Fire is now 95% contained while continuing to show minimal, smoldering, and torching behavior in 2.5-foot tall grass on private land located two miles northeast of Evant. The active Type 3 incident, managed by a Type 3 IC and supported by 19 personnel from the SFS, has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 388 acres per day since its start on August 24, 2026.
This Texas blaze unfolds within a broader national landscape where 3,142,562 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 43% below the two-decade average for the country. Local conditions remain characteristic of the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 10 days. In total it burned about 2,713 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 3,178,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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