2026 Palo Pinto County, Texas Wildfires

United StatesTexas › Palo Pinto County

1 Active Fires
59,649 Acres Burning 2.0x the size of San Francisco
2 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-33%) vs same period last year
59,799 2026 Season Acres ▲ +59,665 (+44526%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Palo Pinto County

Aug 24 Started 90,400 acres 3.0x the size of San Francisco About the size of the city of Denver Ross Fire
Aug 3 Started 150 acres 115 football fields Sleepy Fire

Largest wildfires in Palo Pinto County this season

90,400 Acres 3.0x the size of San Francisco About the size of the city of Denver Ross Fire Palo Pinto
150 Acres 115 football fields Sleepy Fire Palo Pinto

All 2026 Palo Pinto County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Palo Pinto 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 Palo Pinto County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Palo Pinto County is listed too, at its Palo Pinto County acres, and is not added to the Palo Pinto County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Palo Pinto County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

Download this table as CSV

Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
Ross Fire Aug 24, 2026 76% Active 59,649 of 90,400 32.9559, -98.3209 32.7478, -98.3570
Sleepy Fire Aug 3, 2026 95% Inactive 150 32.7761, -98.4466 32.7838, -98.4762
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 59,649 2026 Season Acres 59,799

Land cover · Palo Pinto County 2026

Burned acres in Palo Pinto 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.

Download this tab as CSV

Acres by cover type Acres in Palo Pinto County % of burned % of Palo Pinto County
Forest 23,722 39.8% 37.5%
Range (shrubland) 12,247 20.5% 19.4%
Grassland 22,348 37.5% 35.6%
Other 1,287 2.2% 7.5%
Measured acres in Palo Pinto County 59,605
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Palo Pinto County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Ross Fire 90,400 59,455 (of 89,989) 23,643 12,238 22,298 1,275 0
Sleepy Fire 150 150 79 9 50 12 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 90,550
Offered to measurement 2 90,550
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 90,550
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Palo Pinto County 0 0
Measured acres in Palo Pinto County 2 59,605
Measured acres outside Palo Pinto County 30,534
Whole perimeter acres 90,138
Reported minus measured 412
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Palo Pinto County 2026

Burned forest acres in Palo Pinto 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.

Download this tab as a CSV file

Burned forest by owner Forest acres in Palo Pinto County % of burned forest % of Palo Pinto County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 0.8%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.0%
State 0 0.0% 0.8%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 23,291 98.2% 99.2%
Family 1,233 5.2% 70.1%
Corporate 22,058 93.0% 29.1%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 431 1.8%
Burned forest in Palo Pinto County 23,722
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Palo Pinto County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Ross Fire 23,643 0 0 0 0 23,212 431
Sleepy Fire 79 0 0 0 0 79 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 106,666 23,722
Land cover Forest cells 106,666 23,722
Equal 106,666

Search Fires

🔥 Ross Fire Active 2026
Started: Aug 24 90,400 acre 76% contained
🔥 Sleepy Fire 2026
Started: Aug 3 150 acre 95% contained