Texas lawmakers approved a series of bills this year that aim to better prepare the state for wildfires and to mitigate their damage. The legislation includes a study on wildfire ...

The Smokehouse Creek Fire, which grew to be the largest fire in Texas history, was ignited after a decayed power pole snapped and landed in dry grass, the committee found. The committee also ...

A year earlier and almost 500 miles to the northwest, Texas' Smokehouse Creek Fire ate up more than a million acres in the Panhandle, marking the largest wildfire in the state's history.

Just after the one-year anniversary of the largest wildfire in Texas history — the Smokehouse Creek Fire - state lawmakers are working to take steps to ensure such a fire never happens again.

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Senate Committee on Water ... in an investigation conducted in the months following the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the most destructive fire in the state’s history.

And that I mean, after that, it’s kind of a blur,” said Jennifer Walker, who lost her home in Fritch, Texas. The Smokehouse Creek Fire was the result of near-perfect fire conditions ...

But nothing prepared her for what she saw after the Smokehouse Creek Fire last year. "Everyone I know lost something," Ezzell Brown told The Texas Newsroom, as she stood surrounded by the ...

The Onion Creek fire in Hays County ... are still uncontained are red on the map in the article. 4:35 p.m. The Texas A&M Forest Service is responding to a fire in Blanco County, the agency said ...

In the wake of last year's Smokehouse Creek fire — the largest wildfire in Texas history — Hemphill County is steadily emerging from one of its toughest challenges, said County Judge Lisa ...