{"id":296720,"date":"2026-05-17T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296720\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:55:07","slug":"saturday-wildfires-updates-on-ongoing-wildfires-across-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296720\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday wildfires: Updates on ongoing wildfires across the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drought conditions coupled with lightning and high winds left the region reeling with <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/multiple-wildfire-burning-in-texas-panhandle-eastern-new-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">multiple wildfires<\/a>, some starting Thursday and continuing into the weekend with extreme fire concerns and continued red flag warnings expected Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Randall County<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations lifted at 9:33 p.m. on 5\/15. <\/p>\n<p>-Hunggate Fire<\/p>\n<p>-Chocolate Chip Fire<\/p>\n<p>-Western Fire<\/p>\n<p>Started Friday, as of Saturday it is 100 percent contained having burned 1137 acresUnknown loss <\/p>\n<p>Oldham County<\/p>\n<p>-Line Fire<\/p>\n<p>This fire started in Quay County Thursday, crossed the Texas border and burned 10,913 acres; this Texas portion is 100 percent contained as of 1:20 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Carson County<\/p>\n<p>-FA 6666 Ranch Fire<\/p>\n<p>Started Saturday morning, unknown acreage and containment<\/p>\n<p>Quay County<\/p>\n<p>-Line Fire<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, this fire has burned a combined total of over 30,000 acres and is 90 percent contained.<\/p>\n<p>Cimarron County<\/p>\n<p>Tex-Ok Fire<\/p>\n<p>Ballard Fire<\/p>\n<p>Beaver County<\/p>\n<p>-Wolf Canyon Fire<\/p>\n<p>This fire crossed into the Oklahoma Panhandle from Kansas. As of Saturday, at 2:43 p.m. it is estimated to be 6,744 acres and unknown containment.<\/p>\n<p>-Charger Fire<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday morning, this fire is 90 percent contained and estimated at 214 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Just outside the ABC7 viewing area there are 3 active wildfires west of Childress:<\/p>\n<p>Motley County<\/p>\n<p>-Comanche Fire<\/p>\n<p>1400 acres, 50 percent contained as of 1:19 p.m. Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Hall County<\/p>\n<p>-Ox Bow Fire<\/p>\n<p>2,000 acres, 60 percent contained as of Saturday morning<\/p>\n<p>-Chainey Mountain Fire<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>600 acres, 50 percent contained as of Saturday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drought conditions coupled with lightning and high winds left the region reeling with multiple wildfires, some starting Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-296720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296720","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=296720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}