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The Smokehouse Creek Fire, an uncontained blaze in the Texas Panhandle region, continued to burn Thursday and force evacuations from homes and businesses.A combination of dry conditions ...
The Smokehouse Creek fire is the furthest north in Texas but close to the smaller 687 Reamer fire. The 687 Reamer fire is at 10 per cent containment and has burned 2,000 acres.
A map demonstrating the spread of wildfires across the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma. Lon Tweeten for TIME The Windy Deuce Fire in Moore County, which covers more than 144,000 acres, was 55% ...
Screenshot of a map of the fires raging in the Texas Panhandle taken at 9:54 a.m. on Friday, March 1, 2024. ... dry and windy conditions primed the Texas Panhandle for the fires to take hold and ...
Screenshot of a map of the fires raging in the Texas Panhandle taken at 8:44 A.M. on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Credit: Texas A&M Forest Service
By 3:00 pm CST, the fire was reported to have burned 1,074,047 acres (1,678 sq mi; 434,651 ha) with only 3% containment. It had become the largest fire in Texas state history, overtaking the East Amarillo Fort Complex Fire in 2006, which burned 907,245 acres and caused 12 fatalities in various Texas Panhandle cities.
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 ...
Four fires are currently ravaging the Texas panhandle. As of 9:30 p.m. Monday, the fires had burned nearly 65,000 acres of land in the northern region of the state, ABC7 News reports .