At least five wildfires were threatening communities in the Texas Panhandle as of Wednesday night, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service Incident Viewer.
The largest, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, has scorched 850,000 acres in Texas and has also stretched into Oklahoma, where it has burned nearly 31,600 acres as of Wednesday afternoon, according to an Oklahoma Forestry Services spokesperson. The blaze is closing in on the largest fire on record in Texas: the East Amarillo Complex fire, which burned 907,245 acres in 2006.
Since Monday, over 1,057,000 acres have been burned by the fires across both states, according to officials, with burned acreages still growing as most of the fires have little to no containment.
As of Wednesday night:
Smokehouse Creek Fire
- 850,000 acres in Texas
- 31,590 acres in Oklahoma
- 3% contained
Windy Deuce Fire
- 142,000 acres
- 30% contained
Grape Vine Creek Fire
- 30,000 acres
- 60% contained
Magenta Fire
- 2,500 acres
- 65% contained
687 Reamer Fire
- Hutchinson County
- 2,000 acres
- 10% contained