Started on Sep 30, 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 south of LA CASITA, TX
- People working on it
- 1 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 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
- MinimalBacking — Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.Torching — Whole trees flaring up like torches.
- Jurisdiction
- USFWS · Federal 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 across Starr County near La Casita, Texas, the San Francisco 2 Fire has scorched 524 acres of federal land managed by the USFWS while averaging roughly 175 acres of daily growth over its three-day span. Fire behavior on the 2.5-foot tall grass was characterized as minimal, backing, and torching, supported by two satellite heat detections over the 48-hour window reflecting the spread.
With a Type 4 Incident complexity and a single personnel deployed under a Type 4 IC, firefighting efforts successfully brought the fire to 100 percent containment following its September 30, 2026 start date, accumulating an estimated cost of 40,000 USD.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October, amid a broader national landscape where 3,321,855 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 39% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Texas for 11 days. So far it has affected roughly 524 acres — about 2.1 km². The perimeter is 100% contained.
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 3,366,046 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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