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.

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.