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Texas wildfire map today
Active wildfires in Texas right now, the share of Texas homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. In a typical year, Texas sees most of its wildfire activity from late winter through spring, with West Texas staying active into the summer when drought sets in. The list and counts come from the federal wildfire feed; the WUI figures come from the SILVIS Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The active-fire data refreshes every 15 minutes.
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Active fires in Texas now
No active wildfires in Texas right now.
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 27% of Texas’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 3.2 million of 11.6 million statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 9% in Houston’s Harris County to about 61% in El Paso County.
The five Texas counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- El Paso County
- Travis County
- Bexar County
- Harris County
- Williamson County
Being in the interface is a description of geography, not a forecast of fire — it captures how close a building sits to vegetation that can burn. These classifications change slowly; the figures here come from the SILVIS Lab’s most recent revision of the 1990–2020 dataset, released February 2025.
Official Texas sources
- Texas A&M Forest Service — tfsweb.tamu.edu
- Texas Division of Emergency Management — tdem.texas.gov