Round Up Fire (Texas)
Started on Aug 7, 2026.
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Quick facts
- Location
- 13 miles north of Vega, TX
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 17 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
- ActiveWhat does each term mean? →
- 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 height, the active Round Up Fire has reached 583 acres while remaining at 95 percent containment 13 miles north of Vega, Texas. Located within Oldham County on private land, the natural-caused incident has been managed by the SFS since it started on August 7, 2026. Current fire behavior is active, driven by the heavy grass fuels in the region.
Operations to fully suppress the blaze are being handled by a Type 5 Incident management team led by a Type 5 IC, deploying a total of 17 personnel to the scene.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which spans from June to October. On a broader scale, the landscape is experiencing a quieter year overall, with 2,702,782 hectares burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure 51 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 1 day. In total it burned about 583 acres — around 2.4 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 3,216,670 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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