Yellow Square Fire (Texas)
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Fire (SWIR)
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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
- 6 Miles E from Avant, TX
- Personnel
- 3
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Smoldering, Isolated Torching
- Jurisdiction
- SFS · Private land
Burning across private brushlands characterized by two-foot fuels six miles east of Avant, Texas, in Coryell County, the Yellow Square Fire has consumed 253 acres over three days of activity, averaging approximately 84 acres of daily growth. Despite this trajectory, the active incident—managed by a Type 5 Incident Command under the SFS agency with a lean personnel of three—is currently exhibiting minimal fire behavior featuring smoldering and isolated torching, contributing to a strong 98 percent containment.
The broader fire context reveals that 2026 has experienced 3,126,257 hectares burned thus far, tracking 43 percent below the two-decade average for the country during a typical fire season that generally runs from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Texas for 3 days. In total it burned about 253 acres — around 1.0 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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