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From Cedar Park to San Marcos, Central Texas is experiencing critical fire conditions. Here's how to track fires across Texas in real-time. Track Texas fires: Map traces current wildfires burning ...
The Mason County Commissioners Court issued a 90-day burn ban on Monday in response to the heightened risk. The entire county is shaded in the “extreme” risk category according to the Texas A ...
Here’s how burn bans are decided in Tarrant County, Texas. The Keetch-Byram Drought Index measures daily water content, precipitation, and soil moisture measurements.The index ranks ...
The 2024 Texas wildfires were marked by several major fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle and part of Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned an estimated 1,058,482 acres (1,653.878 sq mi; 428,352 ha) in Texas and Oklahoma and was completely contained on March 16, [ 1 ] becoming the second largest fire in US ...
In a map from the Texas Weather Connection, ... Similarly, in Jones County, there are no restrictions on fireworks, and there is no current burn ban, according to the office of Jones County Judge ...
A banner indicating a red flag warning, flown at a CAL Fire station in 2022. A red flag warning is a forecast warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to inform the public, firefighters, and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildland fire combustion, and rapid spread. [1]
Summer 2023 was among the driest on record causing drought conditions to spread — threatening crops and forcing burn bans in 215 Texas counties. 150 Texas counties have USDA disaster labels due ...
The Keetch–Byram drought index (known as KBDI), created by John Keetch and George Byram in 1968 for the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, is a measure of drought conditions.