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What started as a brush fire in Malibu has now burned more than 2,800 acres, forcing evacuations in several neighborhoods and orders for students at Pepperdine University to shelter in place.
Here are the most recent containment numbers for all fires in the Texas Panhandle: Smokehouse Creek Fire — 1,078,000 acres and 15% contained. Windy Deuce — 140,000 acres and 55% contained.
The Texas A&M Forest Fire Incident Viewer shows the Smokehouse Creek Fire at 15% containment, impacting 1,075,000 acres. "Most of the fire received some precipitation yesterday and there was no ...
This is a list of wildfires across the United States during 2024, that have burned more than 1,000 acres (400 hectares), produced significant structural damage or casualties, or otherwise been notable. Acreage and containment figures may not be up to date.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire is currently the second-largest fire in Texas history. It surpassed the 1988 fire named the Big Country Fire, which scorched 366,000 acres. See Texas Panhandle wildfire ...
The Western Megafires of 2024 refers to a collective of large scale wildfires spanning from Western Canada to the Southwestern United States (US) during the aforementioned calendar year. While universally undefined at present, the term ‘Megafire’ has historically been used to describe fires of an increasingly unprecedented size and ...
The coast live oaks, one of the most effective lines of natural fire defense in the mountains, started struggling too. Fires charred their bark, droughts forced them to ration water, and invasive ...
For the latest news on the blaze, read USA TODAY's updates on the fire for Friday, Nov. 8. Fire crews on Thursday were battling a wildfire that sprang up in Southern California stoked by strong ...