Smokehouse Creek Fire — 2024
The Smokehouse Creek Fire began near Stinnett during a period of extreme Panhandle fire weather and grew into the largest wildfire documented in Texas history. A later Texas A&M Forest Service account records 1,054,153 acres burned.
Where this record is anchored
Reference points identify Stinnett and the Hutchinson County area. They are not the official final perimeter and do not indicate current fire conditions.
A defining Texas disaster record
The fire’s unprecedented scale makes it a central Texas wildfire record. It also shows why active-incident acreage can change as mapping improves and why a finished historical record should identify the source and review date for final figures.
What happened
Condensed from the official records linked below.
- Fire begins
The incident originated near Stinnett in the Texas Panhandle.
- Record-scale growth
Texas A&M Forest Service described the actively burning incident as the largest wildfire in Texas history.
- Incident contained
Firefighting operations continued into March before the incident reached completed status.
- Retrospective acreage published
A Texas A&M Forest Service account identified a final reported burned area of 1,054,153 acres.
What this record does—and does not—show
This reference map is not the official perimeter. Preliminary acreage reported during an active wildfire can include multi-state area or later change after improved mapping; the headline acreage here uses the cited Texas retrospective figure.