Smokehouse Creek fire now 100% contained
It was the largest and most destructive wildfire in state history.
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It was the largest and most destructive wildfire in state history.
Roughly $22 trillion worth of homes are now at risk of damage from flooding, wildfire and other effects linked to climate change.
Multiple "high impact, large wildfires" resistant to control could break out across the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, just as the state's largest-ever fire is nearly contained, officials and forecasters said.
The Texas Panhandle wildfires have left cattle with "hooves burned off" and many of those that survived are now in need of nebulizer treatments and other care.
After drought and Texas' largest-ever wildfire, many farmers are facing a "total wipeout" that could force many to leave generations-old land behind.
A map shows the Texas fires located throughout the Lone Star State's rural Panhandle area with some blazes crossing into western Oklahoma.
Xcel Energy said that "its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek Fire," the largest-ever wildfire in Texas that's burned nearly 1.1 million acres.
A fresh wildfire broke out Sunday in the Texas Panhandle.
Fritch Volunteer Fire Chief Zeb Smith had spent every day of the last week helping his community battle Texas's historic wildfires before he died at an unrelated structure fire Tuesday morning.
A handful of wildfires have burned nearly 1.25 million acres of Texas land in just over a week – nearly as much as what was burned by thousands of fires in the state from 2017 to 2021.
A new lawsuit claims a falling utility pole caused the tragic Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire – Texas' largest wildfire and one of the biggest in U.S. history – has burned nearly 1.1 million acres alone.
The organization will provide mobile showers and food to nourish the body and soul.
The state is battling its "largest and most destructive fire in Texas history," and the blaze is only 15% contained, officials said.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire is now the largest wildfire in Texas history, burning a total of 1,075,000 acres across Texas and Oklahoma.
The call for North Texas firefighters typically has boundaries until a mammoth wildfire starts to burn out of control in the Texas panhandle.
Thursday night, Gov. Abbott granted temporary waivers to state regulations to assist in wildfire response.
Cindy Owen was in Pampa, Texas for work when she got stuck on the road, surrounded by fire.
Footage from Turkey Track Ranch shows cattle running away from orange flames and plumes of black and gray smoke.
Families and homes are being threatened by five wildfires still uncontained.
North Texas firefighters are on the ground in the Panhandle pitching in to help contain the wildfires which have already reached Oklahoma.
Many fires continued to grow overnight.
The final victim of the Hawaii wildfires has been identified as 70-year-old Lahaina resident Lydia Coloma.
Within a day of the list's release, more than 100 of those on the list or their relatives came forward to say they're safe, the FBI said Friday.
The house "looks like it was photoshopped," the homeowner said, amid the piles of ash that surround it on Lahaina's famous Front Street after the Aug. 8 wildfire swept through.
