The Texas Department of Transportation Amarillo District advised that southbound US 287 was closed from the I-40 split, just ...

Route 66 extends nearly 180 miles across the Texas Panhandle. About 20 miles east of the border, the town of Adrian ...

The fires are burning northeast of Amarillo, a city of over 200,000 people. A map created on Feb. 29, 2024, shows where wildfires are raging across the Texas Panhandle and parts of Oklahoma.

A map of the Texas Panhandle showing the locations of active (in red) and contained (in brown) wildfires in the region, as of February 27, 2024.

According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, the East Amarillo Complex Fire in the Texas Panhandle was the largest fire. The fire started on March 3, 2006, and consumed over 907,245 acres.

Maps show the Smokehouse Creek fire has spread across an area to the northeast of Amarillo, ... the estimated area of wildfires to the northeast of Amarillo, Texas, as of 6 a.m. ET on February 28.