2026 Taylor County, Texas Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
81 2026 Season Acres ▲ +81 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Taylor County

Aug 16 Started 81 acres 62 football fields Mulberry Creek Fire

Largest wildfires in Taylor County this season

81 Acres 62 football fields Mulberry Creek Fire Merkel

All 2026 Taylor County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Taylor 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 Taylor County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Taylor County is listed too, at its Taylor County acres, and is not added to the Taylor County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Taylor 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
Mulberry Creek Fire Aug 16, 2026 100% Inactive 81 32.3636, -100.0426 32.3631, -100.0412
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 81

Land cover · Taylor County 2026

Burned acres in Taylor 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 · Taylor County 2026

Burned forest acres in Taylor 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 · Taylor County 2026

Burned acres in Taylor 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

🔥 Mulberry Creek Fire 2026
Started: Aug 16 81 acre 100% contained