Price Fire

Parker County, Texas · Wildfire

Active Official numbers updated Sep 24, 2026 (about 1 hour ago)

First reported yesterday

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	40 acres Sep 23, 7:00 PM	49 acres Sep 23, 8:00 PM +9 acres was 40 acres · Sep 23, 7:00 PM	+9 acres in about 1 hour
Containment	50% Sep 23, 7:00 PM	80% Sep 23, 8:00 PM +30 percent was 50% · Sep 23, 7:00 PM	+30 percent in about 1 hour
Crew size	—	—	—
Money spent	—	—	—

Price Fire summary

The Price Fire is a wildfire near Parker County, Texas. It has burned about 49 acres (about 37 football fields). Crews have boxed in 80% of its edge; the other 20% isn't contained yet. It's a brand-new fire, first reported yesterday. We're also tracking 1 other active fire within about 75 miles.

Size: 49 acres
Containment: 80%
Discovered: September 23, 2026 (first reported yesterday)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Wednesday, September 23rd at 8:00 p.m. CDT.

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Weather & fire-spread conditions

No Red Flag Warning. The National Weather Service hasn't flagged this area for dangerous fire-spread conditions right now.

Hot, dry, and windy weather can help a fire grow; cool, calm, or wet weather helps crews. The tags below rate each day for fire spread — green is calm, red can push a fire.

A general fire-weather guide (wind matters most, then how dry it is, then heat), not a prediction of what a specific fire will do.

	Day	Night
Tonight	—	73°F · Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy Wind 5 to 10 mph ESE · 17% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry
Thursday	96°F · Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers Wind 5 to 10 mph ESE · 12% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Hot Dry	69°F · Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy Wind 5 to 10 mph ESE · 12% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry
Friday	95°F · Partly Sunny Wind 5 mph SE · 0% rain Wind: Calm Heat: Hot Dry	70°F · Mostly Cloudy Wind 5 to 10 mph SE · 2% rain Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:05 p.m. CDT.

Could this fire move fast?

Weather isn't the only thing that changes how a fire moves. The ground matters too: how steep it is, and what's growing on it. These four numbers are for the exact spot where this fire started, not the whole fire. A big fire crosses a lot of different ground.

1° slope

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill. Heat and flame lean uphill, drying out the ground above the fire before it gets there.

0% tree canopy cover

The more tree cover above a fire, the easier it is for the fire to climb from the ground into the treetops. That's called a crown fire. Crown fires move faster, throw embers farther ahead of the fire, and are harder for crews to stop head-on.

859 ft elevation

Elevation by itself doesn't make a fire more or less dangerous. But it shapes the other three numbers here: what grows there, how dry things get, and what the weather does.

Elevation and slope from the USGS 3D Elevation Program; fuel type and canopy cover from LANDFIRE (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), pulled Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:04 p.m. CDT.

Where to get live updates

We show the daily official picture. For minute-by-minute updates, evacuation orders, and maps, these do it best:

→ Watch Duty: real-time fire reporting and evacuations.
→ InciWeb: the government's official fire information site.

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