2026 Cooke County, Texas Wildfires

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1 Active Fires
123 Acres Burning 95 football fields
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
123 2026 Season Acres ▲ +123 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Cooke County

Aug 31 Started 123 acres 95 football fields Bulcher Fire

Largest wildfires in Cooke County this season

123 Acres 95 football fields Bulcher Fire Saint Jo

All 2026 Cooke County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Cooke 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 Cooke County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Cooke County is listed too, at its Cooke County acres, and is not added to the Cooke County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Cooke 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
Bulcher Fire Aug 31, 2026 100% Active 123 33.7968, -97.4501 33.7833, -97.4500
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 123 2026 Season Acres 123

Land cover · Cooke County 2026

Burned acres in Cooke 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.

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Acres by cover type Acres in Cooke County % of burned % of Cooke County
Forest 94 75.5% 22.5%
Range (shrubland) 10 7.9% 1.7%
Grassland 20 15.7% 62.6%
Other 1 0.9% 13.2%
Measured acres in Cooke County 125
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Cooke County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Bulcher Fire 123 125 94 10 20 1 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 123
Offered to measurement 1 123
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 123
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Cooke County 0 0
Measured acres in Cooke County 1 125
Measured acres outside Cooke County 0
Whole perimeter acres 125
Reported minus measured -2
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Cooke County 2026

Burned forest acres in Cooke 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.

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Burned forest by owner Forest acres in Cooke County % of burned forest % of Cooke County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 0.2%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.0%
State 0 0.0% 0.2%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 83 88.2% 99.8%
Family 83 88.2% 46.8%
Corporate 0 0.0% 18.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 35.0%
Ownership not modeled 11 11.8%
Burned forest in Cooke County 94
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Cooke County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Bulcher Fire 94 0 0 0 0 83 11

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 423 94
Land cover Forest cells 423 94
Equal 423

Search Fires

🔥 Bulcher Fire Active 2026
Started: Aug 31 123 acre 100% contained