Texas Wildfires March 2011

From Feb. 21 through Feb. 28, the Texas Forest Service responded to 63 fires on nearly 140,000 acres — mostly in the Panhandle and Rolling Plains.

Some of the fires were very large. On Feb. 28, the Forest Service reported 30,000 acres and 30 homes were lost in Potter County, north of Amarillo. In Motley County, wildfires burned 40,000 acres, and the entire town of Matador had to be evacuated.

2 minute MP3 audio version of Texas crop, weather for 03-01-2011

Though most of the fires have been in the Panhandle and Southern Plains, the conditions that bred the wildfire — drought, large amounts of dry grass and high winds — were posing similar risks for most of the state, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.

see the story at http://agrilife.org/today/2011/03/01/texas-crop-weather-for-march-1-2011/

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