Shotgun Fire (Texas)
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 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
- 12 Miles W from Cross Plains, TX
- Personnel
- 12
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- SFS · Private land
Burning across private land in Callahan County, the active Shotgun Fire is located 12 miles west of Cross Plains, Texas, where it has consumed 365 acres of 2.5-foot tall grass since starting on August 30, 2026. Satellites are picking up two heat detections near the perimeter over the past 48 hours, illustrating the extent of the spread for a blaze averaging approximately 183 acres per day over its two days burning.
Fire behavior is currently minimal and smoldering on the 90 percent contained perimeter. Operations are managed by a Type 5 Incident Commander and the SFS agency, deploying a total of 12 personnel to oversee the Type 5 Incident.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, the broader context shows 3,150,304 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 43 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Texas for 2 days. So far it has affected roughly 365 acres — about 1.5 km². At 90% containment, the fire is nearly under control.
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 3,150,304 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 43% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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