2026 Texas County, Missouri Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2026 Season Fires ▲ +7 vs same period last year
3,477 2026 Season Acres ▲ +3,477 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Texas County

Sep 3 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Bell Fire
Mar 30 Started 400 acres 308 football fields Long Hollow Fire
Mar 22 Started 2 acres 2 football fields Homestead Fire
Mar 21 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Norris Fire
Feb 27 Started 1,554 acres 1.8x the size of Central Park Rocky Branch Rx Fire
Feb 19 Started 659 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Slab Rx Fire

Largest wildfires in Texas County this season

1,554 Acres 1.8x the size of Central Park Rocky Branch Rx Fire Licking
846 Acres About the size of Central Park Hanks Rx Fire Licking
659 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Slab Rx Fire Licking
400 Acres 308 football fields Long Hollow Fire Fort Leonard Wood
15 Acres 12 football fields Norris Fire Houston
2 Acres 2 football fields Homestead Fire Houston

All 2026 Texas County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Texas County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Texas County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Texas County is listed too, at its Texas County acres, and is not added to the Texas County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Texas County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
Rocky Branch Rx Fire Feb 27, 2026 — Inactive 1,554 37.4938, -92.0338 37.4947, -92.0263
Hanks Rx Fire Jan 13, 2026 — Inactive 846 37.5362, -92.0220 37.5375, -92.0389
Slab Rx Fire Feb 19, 2026 — Inactive 659 37.5528, -92.0085 37.5517, -92.0050
Long Hollow Fire Mar 30, 2026 — Inactive 400 37.5934, -92.1257 37.5912, -92.1126
Norris Fire Mar 21, 2026 — Inactive 15 37.4386, -92.0603 37.4362, -92.0769
Homestead Fire Mar 22, 2026 — Inactive 2 37.4223, -91.9905 37.4276, -91.9850
Bell Fire Sep 3, 2026 — Inactive 1 37.4929, -92.0775 37.4943, -92.0758
Totals 2026 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 3,477

Land cover · Texas County 2026

Burned acres in Texas County for the 2026 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Forest ownership · Texas County 2026

Burned forest acres in Texas County for the 2026 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

Burn severity · Texas County 2026

Burned acres in Texas County for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

Search Fires

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🔥 Bell Fire 2026
Started: Sep 3 1 acre
🔥 Long Hollow Fire 2026
Started: Mar 30 400 acre
🔥 Homestead Fire 2026
Started: Mar 22 2 acre
🔥 Norris Fire 2026
Started: Mar 21 15 acre
🔥 Rocky Branch Rx Fire 2026
Started: Feb 27 1,554 acre
🔥 Slab Rx Fire 2026
Started: Feb 19 659 acre