Texas Forest Service

Fall is not the normal time to do controlled burns, as they are usually done in the spring and early summer.

The Fire may have been started by a lightning strike on Monday evening.

Heading into the long Memorial Day weekend -- the unofficial start of another hot and dry summer — the Texas Forest Service is begging us to be careful with cookouts, campfires and any outdoor burning. TFS also wants people to be especially watchful for arsonists deliberately starting fires and report them to law enforcement.

The Texas Forest Service has estimated that last year's drought killed hundreds of millions of trees, but those are only educated guesses.  Now the agency is launching a more scientific survey that will provide a much more accurate picture of the destruction the drought left behind.

Foresters at the Texas Forest Service say they have good news and bad news.  The good news is that because of an unusually wet winter and spring, the worst drought in the state's history has finally ended, in east Texas. The bad news is that many areas of the state are primed for another hot and dry summer.  Wildfire season is just around the corner, and the state and federal agencies that deal wi

The Texas Forest Service reports the unrelenting Texas drought has killed as many as 500 million mature trees -- 10 percent of the state's entire forest cover -- and the end is not in sight.

The Texas Forest Service and local fire departments say despite the cooler weather, and a little rain here and there, the state's high fire danger hasn't gone away. Here in east Texas, conditions are dry as they've ever been, and the bans on outdoor burning are still in effect.

A Trinity County grand jury has indicted a man on charges of setting three separate fires in forest land in August and September.