Joseph Elfelt#CrabAppleFire near #Fredericksburg, Texas.
Fire is wind driven and moving.
If you are ordered to evacuate please do the right thing and leave.
For help with the map see 2 links in upper left corner.
#TXfire #TXwx
Multiple fast moving wildfires in Oklahoma and Texas.
NOAA has issued a #FireWarning for the shaded areas. Each area is at danger from a fire. For details, open the map, click a shaded area and follow the link.
I have been making #Wildfire #GIS maps for at least 10 years and this is the first time I have seen NOAA issue a “fire warning”.
#OKfire #OKwx #TXfire #TXwx
Various wildfires are burning in Texas and Oklahoma.
This area has both a #RedFlagWarning and #HighWindWarning.
Blowing dust is also an issue.
I-40 is reported to be closed east of Amarillo due to #Wildfire and accidents.
Dark symbols on the map are satellite heat detections within the prior 6 hours. This data is not real time and locations are only approximate. Typically there are 8 satellite passes per 24 hours. I think the next update will be this evening.
Some newer fires, like the one along I-40 in the Texas panhandle, have not yet been detected by the satellites.
To search on an address, open the map and click/tap Menu > Search.
#TXfire #OKfire #TXwx #OKwx
Michael Barthel / MiBaWi#SmokehouseCreekFire #txfires #txfire #txwx
Increased fire activity reported in the area of Washita and County Rd Y, South of #Canadian in Hemphill County.
8 air tankers (5 SEATs and 3 LATs) are currently working the flare up(s)
Interactive GIS map shows latest perimeter for #SmokehouseCreekFire and other fires in the Texas Panhandle. Click inside any perimeter and a display will appear with all the attribute data the GIS server has for the thing that you clicked.
Attribute data says Smokehouse fire has burned over 1 million acres and was caused by “Electrical transmission/distribution systems”.
This fire perimeter data comes from the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) group. #TXfire #TXwx
Kenton RileyFor any #louisville area peeps trying to visualize just how much area 850,000 acres (1328 sq mi) of wildfire covers:
Think of all of Louisville/Jefferson County (398sq mi). Add Spencer (192) & Oldham (196) counties. Then tack on Floyd (149) and Clark (376) counties across the river in Indiana while you're at it.
That's still about 17 square miles shy of the size of the #txfire.
Mark Ingalls 
#Wildfire #smoke from Texas was transported all the way to #Toronto in the southwesterly flow ahead of the cold front sweeping across North America.
Likely Jan LukasErm, this seems like an astoundingly, fantistically unbelievable way to shed one's mortal coil that one should think would remain fully hypothetical, yet we're 3/4th down this list atm … 😱
1. Work in a nuclear facility
2. Be essential personnel
3. Remain in nuclear facility after mandatory wildfire evacuation for non-essential personnel
4. Die* in a non-nuclear firestorm from said wildfire
*hypothetical at this time (and hopefully remains so! 😬)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/texas-wildfires-disaster-declaration
Inland Empire News Service#BREAKING: Watch Duty has emergency deployed in Texas ahead of schedule due to the horrific wind-driven fires in the #Texas Panhandle. We can’t sit idly by and watch another town overrun by wildfire without giving communities life-saving information needed to make informed decisions. Be safe! #txwx #txfire
#GrapevineCreekFire https://share.watchduty.org/i/16561
#SmokehouseCreekFire https://share.watchduty.org/i/16557
Here is the latest satellite hotspot data for the #SmokehouseCreekFire in the Texas Panhandle.
If you open the map and zoom in you will see a uniform pattern in some of the hotspot data. Sometimes (not always) that kind of data indicates the satellite sensors were detecting smoke/embers in the air and not actual fire on the ground. However, never gamble with your life by ignoring an order to evacuate.
The screenshot with weather data is from Pampa TX. Wind out of the north gusting to 38mph.
#TXfire #TXwx