The Largest Wildfire In Texas History

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Texas is battling an ongoing and record-breaking set of wildfires that has already burned over 1 million acres and killed two people. The most destructive of them, the Smokehouse Creek fire, has seriously damaged communities and cattle ranches in northeastern Texas and western Oklahoma. After a week of battling flames, there are still several active wildfires in the Texas Panhandle and they remain largely uncontained.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1482468

[yellowroseoftexas]

Thanks for the update. Very grim. This area is just flat grasslands with few trees, few hills (or just rolling hills) from the Panhandle and northwards through western Oklahoma, Nebraska, & Kansas. . Also, the Panhandle is the Panhandle; North or Northeast Texas is Dallas/Plano/Texarkana, etc.