We are several hundred miles away from land of the big dinosaur but that kind of size increase is usually a wind driven event.The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas exploded in size, growing from 40,000 acres to 200,000 acres in just six hours.
They are saying 300,000 acres now.
"The Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned 500,000 acres since igniting Monday afternoon, making it the second-largest wildfire on record in Texas, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
It remains completely uncontained and is likely to grow further."
Sure ya can. Divide by 640. =1,172 square miles..Radio said it was up to over 750,000 acres... I cannot even imagine... Anyone on here near that area or know of anyone????
That was a wild ride.Seems hard to imagine one growing so fast but i have been there, seen it. Just north of there in OK near where Allenw is there was one a few years ago that was wind driven. It burned 270,000 acres in a short time. Very narrow but probably 50 miles long. Almost nothing saved until the wind stopped.
The Peeler ranch had a good video a couple years ago of truck running ahead of cattle cutting fences with choppers and guys horseback driving cattle in front a fire. They didn't have this wind but it was pretty interesting. It's also pretty risky.When was the last huge fire up there-2006 or so? I remember hearing about vets and law enforcement going out shooting more livestock than they saved, because they were so badly burned. Heartbreaking. Good reason to train cattle to follow a feed truck. Good video of a large herd chasing the feed truck/siren and getting out of the way of a fire near Stinnet.