{"id":196919,"date":"2026-03-09T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:20:10","slug":"the-texas-wildfire-season-is-just-ramping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196919\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas wildfire season is just ramping up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINTON, Texas \u2014 The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service has recorded 5 major wildfires so far in 2026, as the state enters its most dangerous stretch of the fire season.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service, the largest wildfires in Texas typically occur between March and May.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, there were 12 fires that burned more than 1,000 acres, caused significant damage or resulted in casualties. The Welder Complex Fire of March 4 was among those fires.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service monitors wildfires throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINTON, Texas \u2014 The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service has recorded 5 major wildfires so far in 2026, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,21412],"class_list":{"0":"post-196919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-sinton-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196919","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=196919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}