{"id":415637,"date":"2026-08-24T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415637\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:10:14","slug":"aerial-drops-underway-as-ross-fire-near-palo-pinto-grows-amid-high-wildfire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415637\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial drops underway as Ross fire near Palo Pinto grows amid high wildfire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/grass-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grass fire<\/a> near Ross in Palo Pinto County has burned at least 200 acres and remains 0% contained as crews battle dry, windy conditions and conduct aerial drops Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Palo Pinto County Emergency Service District said that the fire started at around 25 acres at 1:28 p.m. on Monday. No damage to any surrounding structures has been reported; however, the structures remain at risk.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth alarm has been called, and a Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) Strike Team was called to the scene, the Texas Forest Service said. Also supporting defense efforts are the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service for dozers and air support. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas chopper is live over crews battling the fire.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eye-on-politics-thumbnail-copy-psdc.png#.png\" alt=\"eye-on-politics-thumbnail-copy-psdc.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  Wildfire risks in North Texas<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is currently monitoring a handful of wildfires west of I-35. The largest at the moment is the Ross fire in central Palo Pinto County, near US-180 and FM 919.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a month without measurable rainfall, finer surface fuels are becoming critically to extremely dry and are ready to burn.<\/p>\n<p>Monday afternoon, sustained south\/southwest winds of 10\u201315 mph, with occasional gusts of 20\u201325 mph, are combining with very low relative humidity of 18-25% to create an elevated fire threat, especially along and north of I-20 and west of I-35W through Monday evening. Breezy conditions could allow fires to spread quickly and become more resistant to control.<\/p>\n<p>Winds should lighten somewhat Tuesday, but with poor overnight humidity recovery, critically to extremely dry fuels and above-average temperatures, the increased wildfire threat will continue Tuesday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grass fire near Ross in Palo Pinto County has burned at least 200 acres and remains 0%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,18616,3205,430,36662,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-415637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fire","tag-grass-fire","tag-heat","tag-north-texas","tag-palo-pinto-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415637","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=415637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}