{"id":407474,"date":"2026-08-15T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:34:19","slug":"crews-battle-wildfires-in-floyd-cottle-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407474\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle wildfires in Floyd, Cottle counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Crews battled a wildfire in Floyd and Cottle counties, northeast of Lubbock, Friday. Additional fires were reported farther north across the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tfswildfires.com\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tfswildfires.com\/public\/\">Texas A&amp;M Forest Service<\/a>, the Cedar Hill fire was 95 percent contained as of late Friday. Its size was estimated at 321 acres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Image from Texas A&amp;M Forest Service website\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VUUEILSJWVFAZMLCURNQF2F6IE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"507\" \/>Image from Texas A&amp;M Forest Service website(Texas A&amp;M Forest Service)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire burned near the community of Cedar Hill, along FM 97 in northeast Floyd County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Grass Burr Fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Farther east, the Grass Burr fire started Thursday. Friday it was 100 percent contained, estimated size 2,622 acres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Image from Texas A&amp;M Forest Service website\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GGNKEEAZSFGFZJZWXWXFSK2QJA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"504\" \/>Image from Texas A&amp;M Forest Service website(Texas A&amp;M Forest Service)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Forest Service shared video of an airtanker dropping fire retardant on this fire Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most of the Lubbock and South Plains area is in some level of drought. The <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX\">latest U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a> report released Thursday shows the status as of Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The worst drought conditions are over parts of the Rolling Plains up to the Texas Panhandle, shown in red below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"U.S. Drought Monitor, released Aug. 13, 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JA3M3PFO3BDKPLIEU5RTZZUAFE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"569\" \/>U.S. Drought Monitor, released Aug. 13, 2026(KCBD)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Crews battled a wildfire in Floyd and Cottle counties, northeast of Lubbock, Friday. 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