Wildfires in the Texas panhandle are showing little sign of slowing down. One of the fires, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, has grown to over a million acres and is now the largest in the state's history.

Update:See the latest updates on acres burned, containment and map of the Texas wildfires. Five fires are currently ravaging the Texas panhandle. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, the fires had burned over ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday about 400 to 500 structures in the Panhandle had been destroyed so far. Rian Hightower told CBS News Texas she and her family barely made it out of their house ...

The state of Texas experienced its 10th weekly decline in drought conditions in the last 12 weeks during mid-June, according to the Texas Water Development Board, with the Texas Panhandle looking ...

A map of the Texas Panhandle showing the locations of active (in red) and contained (in brown) wildfires in the region, as of February 27, 2024.

After igniting Monday afternoon, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to become the largest wildfire in Texas history, burning over one million acres across the Panhandle so far. Improving weather ...

TEXAS, USA — The explosive growth of the second-largest wildfire in Texas history slowed as winds and temperatures dipped but the massive blaze was still untamed and threatening more death and ...

The North Plains Electric Cooperative, which serves large swaths of the Texas Panhandle, said they’ll have to repair about 115 miles of power lines in the wake of the fires.

Firefighters in the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday are still trying to keep the largest wildfire in state history from spreading beyond the nearly 1.1 million acres it has already incinerated as ...

Texas is battling one of its biggest wildfires in decades as a series of devastating blazes ripped through the Panhandle, destroying homes and livestock and sparking a wave of evacuations.

Illustration by Kathleen Fu 1. The Panhandle. Thanks to simple geometry, the Texas Panhandle is perhaps the easiest of the state’s eleven regions to delineate.