Started on Sep 11, 2026.
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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 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
- 13 miles west of Eldorado, TX
- Cause
- Human
- People working on it
- 97 people
- Complexity
- Type 5 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- ActiveRunning — Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
- 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 across private brush land featuring two-foot vegetation, the Woodward Fire has consumed 1,700 acres in Schleicher County, Texas, located 13 miles west of Eldorado. Spreading at an approximate rate of 850 acres per day over its two days of burning, the blaze has maintained active and running fire behavior. Satellites are picking up two heat detections near the perimeter over the past 48 hours, indicating the local spread of the incident.
A total of 97 personnel from the SFS have successfully brought the human-caused fire to 100 percent containment under a Type 5 Incident management structure led by a Type 5 IC. This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, the broader context shows 3,213,890 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 41% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 2 days. In total it burned about 1,700 acres — around 6.9 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 3,323,241 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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