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.

More than a million acres in Texas and western Oklahoma were scorched by the Smokehouse Creek Fire. The fire covered portions of Hemphill, Hutchinson and Roberts counties, while dipping into some ...

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.

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — This time last year, Texans living in the Panhandle saw the Smokehouse Creek Fire grow to become the largest in the state's recorded history. It burned more than 1 million acres ...