A wildfire in rural Texas expanded to more than 200 sq km, and local emergency management ordered residents to evacuate on Aug. 25 local time. The fire began the afternoon of Aug. 24 and has swept across north-central Texas. Persistent extreme dryness has driven increased wildfire activity across the southern and western US; the National Interagency Fire Center reported more than a dozen new large fires on Aug. 23 and said the US has recorded over 50,000 wildfires so far this year, the most for

A wildfire in rural Texas expanded to more than 200 sq km, and local emergency management ordered residents to evacuate on Aug. 25 local time. The fire began the afternoon of Aug. 24 and has swept across north-central Texas. Persistent extreme dryness has driven increased wildfire activity across the southern and western US; the National Interagency Fire Center reported more than a dozen new large fires on Aug. 23 and said the US has recorded over 50,000 wildfires so far this year, the most for this period in a decade.