Smokehouse Creek Fire

20241.05 million acresOklahoma and Texas

The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned 1.05 million acres, about 1,636 square miles, across 9 counties. It began on February 26, 2024.

Watch how it happened

Smokehouse Creek Fire · 2024

How it happened

Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.

About this replay

Date (UTC)—Historical replay

Burned so far—acres

High severity—of the area so far

Detections2,919satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Rhode Island, to scale1,034 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (2,518 VIIRS and 401 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

How severely it burned

Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.

Map of burn severity across the Smokehouse Creek Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	9.0%	94,341
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	64%	667,937
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	27%	280,076
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.1%	639
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images	0.4%	4,252

No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 9% burned at moderate severity.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.

Where it burned

Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.

Acres burned by county

Roberts County	TX	426,770
Hemphill County	TX	390,560
Hutchinson County	TX	182,523
Ellis County	OK	23,093
Carson County	TX	9,823
Roger Mills County	OK	6,021
Gray County	TX	4,978
Wheeler County	TX	3,695
Lipscomb County	TX	29

Other large fires in Oklahoma and Texas in 2024

Windy Deuce Fire145,994 acres
Catesby Fire83,917 acres
Grape Vine Creek Fire33,560 acres

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.