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USA TODAY combed through historic records and talked with experts to produce this list of the nation's biggest fires.
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.
The bill, a response to the historic wildfires that engulfed the Texas Panhandle last year, now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s ...
A reader was curious about a historic fire in Davenport Ranch, so we looked into more than one archive for the answers.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire would eventually become the largest wildfire in Texas history, burning over a million acres. Two people were killed and hundreds of structures were destroyed, including ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wildfires fueled by dry ... issued elevated fire warnings around the nation’s fourth-largest city. The fire burned about 3.7 square miles (9.6 square kilometers) and ...