{"id":179892,"date":"2026-02-25T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179892\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:07:09","slug":"nebo-mountain-fire-in-gillespie-co-now-40-contained-at-1160-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179892\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebo Mountain Fire in Gillespie Co. now 40% contained at 1,160 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"

GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The Nebo Mountain Fire in Gillespie County is now 40% contained at an estimated 1,160 acres, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.<\/p>\n

The fire was 25% contained as of Tuesday, the Forest Service estimating the fire’s size at 250 acres.<\/a> Officials say the increase in acreage on Wednesday was due to more accurate mapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terrain out here is steep and difficult to access,\u201d Fredericksburg Fire\/EMS Chief Lynn Bizzell said. \u201cBecause of that, we relied on Texas A&M Forest Service aircraft earlier today to slow the fire\u2019s spread, and our ground crews will continue to work through the night to increase containment and stop the forward progression.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gillespie County Emergency Operations Center has been activated in support of fighting the fire. A disaster declaration has been issued to the state to request additional fire suppression resources and tools, according to Fredericksburg and Gillespie County Emergency Management.<\/p>\n

Fire crews are continuing to build a containment line, the Forest Service saying that most of the fire’s activity is well-interior to the fire’s edge.<\/p>\n

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The fire was first reported on Tuesday afternoon at around 2:30 p.m. near the 600 block of Exxon Road, northwest of Willow City, close to Highway 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The Nebo Mountain Fire in Gillespie County is now 40% contained at an estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-179892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}