{"id":409330,"date":"2026-08-18T00:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:24:27","slug":"burn-bans-remain-in-effect-across-most-of-south-plains-all-of-panhandle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409330\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn bans remain in effect across most of South Plains, all of Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Outdoor burning is restricted across a majority of the South Plains and all of the Panhandle due to persistent hot and dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock, Hockley, Dickens, Gaines, Dawson, Borden and Scurry counties are not under burn restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Refer to the map to see if your county is affected by the burn ban.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Burn bans remain in effect across most of South Plains, all of Panhandle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787012667_323_K4IO4JGVRZEJBMPIA57K2EFP3A.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"757\" \/>Burn bans remain in effect across most of South Plains, all of Panhandle(Texas A&amp;M)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone found violating a county burn ban faces a Class C misdemeanor and can be fined up to $500.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Outdoor burning is restricted across a majority of the South Plains and all of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[142960,142958,11695,142957,142956,96306,50987,168,170,169,142961,142959,374],"class_list":["post-409330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-500-fine","tag-borden","tag-burn-bans","tag-dawson","tag-dickens","tag-gaines","tag-hockley","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-outdoor-burn-bans","tag-scurry","tag-south-plains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409330","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=409330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}